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Space oddity: Key Earth compound found outside solar system
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(That's roughly 3.7 quadrillion miles, give or take a trillion.) Atmospheric water was discovered also.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/03/space-oddity-ke.html">But don't get your hopes up that this is where your <A href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=are-aliens-among-us">extraterrestrial relatives</A> are hiding: The big ball of gas is orbiting too close to its sun to support earthly life. The scientists write, however, that "under the right circumstances" methane <EM>can play a key role in prebiotic chemistry — the chemical reactions considered necessary to form life as we know it.</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/03/space-oddity-ke.html">Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab found the far-away molecules with the <A href="http://hubble.nasa.gov/">Hubble Space Telescope</A>. 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