The team discovered both iso-propanol, best known for its usefulness ... the discovery of huge alcohol isomers could bring us one step closer to getting that recipe. READ MORE: The Largest ...

ALMA can detect narrow spectral lines and lab work that characterizes the signatures from the propanol isomers in space. The discoveries will help shed light on how celestial bodies like stars and ...

Propanol is an alcohol, and is now the largest in this class of molecules that has been detected in interstellar space. This molecule exists in two forms ("isomers"), depending on which carbon atom ...

Co-author Rob Garrod from the University of Virginia said: "The detection of both isomers of propanol is uniquely powerful in determining the formation mechanism of each. "Because they resemble ...

The isomers propanol and iso-propanol were both detected in Sgr B2 using the ALMA telescope. (Image: GLOSTAR collaboration (background image). Wikipedia/public domain (molecule models)) The search for ...