Organic Molecule Benzonitrile Detected in Space (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Organic Molecule Benzonitrile Detected in Space (1 of 1)

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This is a widefield image of the Taurus Molecular Cloud and surrounding sky, taken from Charlottesville, VA on January 2, 2018. The molecular cloud is the dark, obscured region in the upper left of the image, where the gas and dust are blocking the stars behind the cloud from view. To the right of the image is the Pleiades cluster, and in the bottom left is the star Aldebaran. The image was captured using a DLSR camera, 50 mm lens, and a basic tracking mount. A total of about 50 minutes of exposures were added to create the final image. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 12 January 2018 issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.A. McGuire at National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, and colleagues was titled, "Detection of the aromatic molecule benzonitrile (c-C6H5CN) in the interstellar medium."

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Brett A. McGuire

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