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    A Precursor Piece to DNA Was Found in Star Material

    by Brian Gallagher Apr 05, 2019 2 minutes

    Stars, of course, not only sustain life, by showering planet Earth in photons, but also can contain, in their protostellar (or very young) form, a precursor material of life: a molecule called glycolonitrile.Photograph by ESA / SPIRE / PACS / P. André (CEA Saclay) / Wikicommons

    pril—National Poetry Month—prompted me to reread some of the work of English-American poet, Auden pairs musings on the cosmos with those on the human condition. The last four lines of “Funeral Blues” evoke grief over the loss of a loved friend:

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