Carbon Compound Detected in Space for First Time
A team of international scientists has used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time. Known as methyl cation, the molecule is important because it aids the formation of more complex carbon-based molecules. Carbon compounds form the foundations of all known life, and as such are particularly interesting to scientists working to understand both how life developed on Earth, and how it could potentially develop elsewhere in our universe. (Source NASA)
