{"id":136583,"date":"2022-03-09T04:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/astronomers-spot-tantalizing-large-molecule-near-star-with-comet-factory"},"modified":"2022-03-09T04:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:03:05","slug":"astronomers-spot-tantalizing-large-molecule-near-star-with-comet-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/astronomers-spot-tantalizing-large-molecule-near-star-with-comet-factory","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers spot tantalizing large molecule near star with \u2018comet factory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-spot-tantalizing-large-molecule-near-star-with-comet-factory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The molecule is a precursor to organic molecules, which can be associated with life.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Astronomers spotted the largest molecule yet found in a planet-forming disk, which they say will tell us more about the origin of life.<\/p>\n<p>The molecule, dimethyl, is a precursor to organic molecules like methane that in some cases may be indicative of life. The team also may have found methyl formate, which is deemed a \u201cbuilding block\u201d to constructing even larger organic molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The molecule is a precursor to organic molecules, which can be associated with life. Astronomers spotted the largest molecule yet found in a planet-forming disk, which they say will tell us more about the origin of life. The molecule, dimethyl, is a precursor to organic molecules like methane that in some cases may be indicative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136583","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}