The ethanolamine discovery was made in the molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027, located near the center of the Milky Way.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed PNAS publication (Rivilla et al. 2021) and corroborated by institutional press releases from CSIC and IAC, all consistent on the discovery location and nature of the finding. [tier=silver indep_score=0.925 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=single on Rivilla et al. 2021 PNAS study reporting the ethanolamine detection via radio astronomy spectroscopy (upstreams: Rivilla et al. 2021 PNAS paper, IRAM 30m telescope observations, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Investigadores del CSIC descubren en el espacio etanolamina, una molécula clave en el origen de la vida | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (seed:science_and_space)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101314118 (corroboration)
- https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/discovery-ethanolamine-simplest-phospholipid-head-group-space (corroboration)