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Life Starting Materials Found in Dusty Disk
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This graph, or spectrum, from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope tells astronomers that some of the most basic ingredients of DNA and protein are concentrated in a dusty planet-forming disk circling a young sun-like star called IRS 46.
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Credit lineLife Starting Materials Found in Dusty Disk. NASA/JPL, 2005-12-20. Public domain. ID: PIA03242.
