First Detection of a Chiral Molecule in Space (IMAGE)

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First Detection of a Chiral Molecule in Space

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The Milky Way and Galactic Center rise over Lake Waiau on the summit of Mauna Kea. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 17, 2016, 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, "Discovery of the interstellar chiral molecule propylene oxide (CH3CHCH2O)."

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Photo by Brett A. McGuire. Foreground: P. Brandon Carroll

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