{"id":240815,"date":"2026-07-14T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/signs-of-sugar-detected-near-centre-of-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:14:11","slug":"signs-of-sugar-detected-near-centre-of-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/signs-of-sugar-detected-near-centre-of-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Signs of sugar detected near centre of the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/signs-of-sugar-detected-near-centre-of-the-milky-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have detected signs of a type of sugar in gas clouds near the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>Sugars provide energy and are key building blocks of life on Earth, such as DNA, but how they got here is a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>It is not uncommon to find sugar in the cosmos \u2014 simple sugars such as ribose and glucose have been previously discovered on asteroids in our Solar System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have detected signs of a type of sugar in gas clouds near the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Sugars provide energy and are key building blocks of life on Earth, such as DNA, but how they got here is a mystery. It is not uncommon to find sugar in the cosmos \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240815","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=240815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}