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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Interstellar sugar cloud: not Atkins-compliant

An enormous cloud of high-carb, life-giving frozen sugar has been discovered at the end of the Milky Way.

Molecules of a simple sugar, glycolaldehyde, were detected in a cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2 about 26,000 light years away.
Observations indicated large quantities of the sugar frozen to a temperature only a few degrees above absolute zero, the point at which all molecular movement stops.

Link (via Futurismic)

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