It isn't the type of alcohol that gets you drunk that scientists have found in space.
The largest alcohol molecule ever found in space is near the center of the Milky Way, and it could help us understand how stars are formed.
The team discovered that iso-propanol, best known for its usefulness in making hand sanitizer, and normal propanol, the other type of propanol alcohol, near Sagittarius B2, an interstellar region not far from Sagittarius A*.
The region is known as the "delivery room" because of the number of stars it has produced. The discovery of these chemicals is part of a long-term effort to understand Sagittarius B2.
Rob Garrod from the University of Virginia is a co-author of one of two new papers published in the journal Astronomy.
The two molecule should be present in the same places at the same time because they resemble each other so much.
Thanks to the ALMA telescope in Chile, we were able to find these kinds of molecule in deep space for the first time.
Three new types of organic molecule have been discovered in space using ALMA, according to a press release.
There are many questions surrounding the birth of their child. We don't know what kind of mixology produced stars and other heavenly objects, but the discovery of huge alcohol isomers could help us get that recipe.
The largest alcohol molecule ever found in space may be the key to star formation.
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