/oss/taxonomy/term/1888/all en /oss/article/environment-news-space-technology/space-molecules-are-branching-out <p>In a paper published in this week’s issue of Science, astronomers from the Max Planck institute, the University of Cologne (Germany) and Cornell University (USA), announced to have for the first time detected, in interstellar space, a carbon-containing molecule with a branched structure. The molecule, isopropyl cyanide (<em>i</em>-C<sub>3</sub>H<sub>7</sub>CN), was discovered in a gas cloud called Sagittarius B2 close to the center of our galaxy.</p> Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:29:27 +0000 Ariel Fenster PhD 2202 at /oss