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Scientists have detected a sugar in interstellar space for the first time - Research Today

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Is it brown? I swear there's a Parliament lyric about that...

Researchers identified it in the molecular cloud G+0.693−0.027

So we have found space cotton candy now? Who is gonna eat that?

Besides, I like the picture in the article. Gave me a good chuckle.

This reads like an announcement you would get in cookie clicker.

Or egg inc

Never heard of that one before, but it looks cool.

We need to keep Nestlé from exploiting it.

Galactose would have been more fitting for the Milky Way galaxy. Oh well.

Now all we need is a tea nebula and there’s every motivation for a joint British Isles space programme.

One step closer to generating tea from space.