Why is the potential discovery of tryptophan in an asteroid sample such a big deal for #astrobiology?
Gonna do a deep dive behind the headlines.
For starters, here is a link to the discovery article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512461122
thread time!
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