Why detecting carbon molecules in space matters?
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Another first for the James Webb Space Telescope: carbon is life, and scientists say the JWST has just detected a carbon molecule in the Orion Nebula. One of the most important unsolved problems of modern science is: How did life arise from non-living matter? We still don't know, but we have a good idea of what the required steps are, for instance, the formation of complex organic molecules, like amino acids, from simpler ones, like CH3+, or methylium.
