Scientists have detected for the first time an organic molecule closely related to an amino acid near the centre of our Milky Way.
The organic molecule, known as "amino acetonitrile", was found with a 30-metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Australia in the "Large Molecule Heimat", a giant gas cloud near the galactic centre in the constellation Sagittarius.
It is a very dense, hot gas clump within the star forming region Sagittarius B2. In all space observations, scientists give the most importance to the detection of so-called "bio" molecules, especially interstellar amino acids.
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