With funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (approval numbers: 11590780, 11590784, 11773054, 11973075, U1731237, U1931104), the team of researchers Juan Li and Junzhi Wang of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences collaborated with researchers at home and abroad to utilize the world’s largest radio Telescope-Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA), the first detection of propionamide molecule C 2 H in Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2, see Figure 1 left) 5 CONH 2 , this is the largest peptide-like bond molecule currently found in interstellar space
Protein, DNA and RNA are the three elements of life.
Sgr B2 is an active massive star-forming region located in the center of the Milky Way.
This work detected propionamide molecules in interstellar space for the first time
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