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Not sugar as in the stuff in those little packets, mind you.
注意，這里的糖可不是那種用紙包的糖果。
We’re talking about carbohydrates simple molecules made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen which are the simplest forms of sugar.
我們所說的是由糖的最基本形式---碳、氫、氧所組成的碳水化合物簡單分子。
But the simple sugars that the astronomers detected, called glycoaldehydes, are thought to be one of the building blocks of life.
但是天文學家發現，一種名為甘油醛的單糖是生命的重要組成部分之一。
How Do These Simple Sugars Form In Space?
這些單糖如何在宇宙間形成？
Scientists suspect that they form on ice covered dust grains in interstellar clouds.
科學家們猜測，它們是在星際云中由冰包裹的塵土顆粒所形成。
The really exciting thing is that discovering these molecules near a sun like star means that the basic building blocks of life may be present around new stars even before planets form.
真正令人興奮的是，在太陽這樣的恒星附近發現這些分子意味著，生命的基本組成部分在星球形成前就出現在新恒星周圍了。
Again, this doesn’t prove anything, but it’s one more clue about how life might have begun on Earth–and how and why it might exist elsewhere in the universe.
雖然這不足以證明什么，但對于人們了解地球如何出現生命以及宇宙的其他地方也可能出現生命的原因和發展提供了線索。
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