{"id":120687,"date":"2021-03-19T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/gotham-investigators-uncover-warehouse-full-of-complex-molecules-never-before-seen-in-space"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:22:45","slug":"gotham-investigators-uncover-warehouse-full-of-complex-molecules-never-before-seen-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/gotham-investigators-uncover-warehouse-full-of-complex-molecules-never-before-seen-in-space","title":{"rendered":"GOTHAM Investigators Uncover Warehouse-Full of Complex Molecules Never Before Seen in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gotham-investigators-uncover-warehouse-full-of-complex-molecules-never-before-seen-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Radio observations of a cold, dense cloud of molecular gas reveal more than a dozen unexpected molecules.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a vast, previously unknown reservoir of new aromatic material in a cold, dark molecular cloud by detecting individual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules in the interstellar medium for the first time, and in doing so are beginning to answer a three-decades-old scientific mystery: how and where are these molecules formed in space?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had always thought polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were primarily formed in the atmospheres of dying stars,\u201d said Brett McGuire, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Project Principal Investigator for GOTHAM, or Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Observations of TMC-1: Hunting Aromatic Molecules. \u201cIn this study, we found them in cold, dark clouds where stars haven\u2019t even started forming yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio observations of a cold, dense cloud of molecular gas reveal more than a dozen unexpected molecules. Scientists have discovered a vast, previously unknown reservoir of new aromatic material in a cold, dark molecular cloud by detecting individual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules in the interstellar medium for the first time, and in doing so are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}