The protoplanetary disc around a constellation of Taurus star, named MWC 480, harbors enough methyl cyanide (CH3CN) to "fill all of Earth’s oceans," according to the European Southern Observatory. Astronomers made the detection with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2, mash mix: Space.com
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