Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas Henning from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in […]
Ethylene
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Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young, very low-mass star. The results reveal the […]
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A Pole-to-Pole Map Of Hydrocarbons In Saturn’s Upper Stratosphere And Mesosphere
We analyze data from the final two years of the Cassini mission to retrieve the distributions of methane, ethane, acetylene, ethylene, and benzene in Saturn’s upper stratosphere and mesosphere from […]
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CN And CCH Derivatives Of Ethylene And Ethane: Confirmation Of The Detection Of CH3CH2CCH In TMC-1
We present a study of CH3CH2CCH, CH3CH2CN, CH2CHCCH, and CH2CHCN in TMC-1 using the QUIJOTE1 line survey. We confirm the presence of CH3CH2CCH in TMC-1, which was previously reported as […]