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Comet Lovejoy's dumping alcohol in space!

Comet Lovejoy's dumping alcohol in space!

Rediff.com24 Oct 2015

The aptly named Comet Lovejoy contains ethanol and the simple sugar glycolaldehyde, researchers report online October 23 in Science Advances. This is the first time these complex organic molecules have been detected on a comet.