ALMA Finds Organohalogen Methyl Chloride Around Infant Stars
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Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Organohalogen methyl chloride discovered by ALMA around the infant stars in IRAS 16293-2422. These same organic compounds were discovered in the thin atmosphere surrounding 67P/C-G by the Rosetta space probe. The background image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is from NASA\'s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
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Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/news/2017-alma-stars-comet/
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- B.3.1.1
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- IRAS 16293-2422
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- B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
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- 400
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- 400
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- https://public.nrao.edu/news/2017-alma-stars-comet/
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- NRAO/AUI/NSF
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- https://public.nrao.edu
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- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
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- 520 Edgemont Road
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- Charlottesville
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- Virginia
- Postal Code
- 22903
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- USA
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- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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- NRAO/AUI/NSF
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- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/nrao17cb27c-IRAS1.jpg
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- 2018-05-14T12:16:01-04:00
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- 1.1
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