NASA's James Webb Space Telescope leaves the world stunned not only with its mesmerising pictures of the cosmos, but also by unravelling mysteries of the universe. The JWST, also called Webb, detected organic molecules in active galaxies swirling around supermassive black holes. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at Oxford University investigated tiny dust molecules in the nuclear region of active …
Scientists are always looking for compounds in space that can be found on Earth. According to Dr. Brett McGuire, an astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MIT and National Radio Astronomy Observatory, around 25% of the Universe’s total carbon is contained in PAHs. “Now, for the first time, we have a direct window into their chemistry that …
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