Dean Regas chats with Justin Spilker, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Texas A&M, about a recent discovery of complex organic molecules in a distant galaxy. Listen for an illuminating ...

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Texas A&M University Caption Astronomers using the Webb telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules similar to smoke or smog in the distant galaxy shown here.

Texas A&M astronomers utilized NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to change the scope of how galaxies are studied, after recently finding the universe’s oldest-known organic molecules.