Using an infrared telescope to peer far back in time, astronomers have made the first observations of complex organic molecules from an era when the universe was just 4 billion years old, less than a third of its current age.
ORGANIC PIONEERS. Complex organic compounds, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, depicted as floating in the early universe.
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