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You can also identify aminoacids in molecular clouds that go on to form stars and planets e.g. https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/523/2/2876/7176071?login=false

I'm just not sure if there is any research on whether this forms spontaneously on dust grains, like on a metal catalyst, or whether this is something ejected from a former star/planet that died...or...actual panspermia.

Lots of organic molecules floating around in space eg https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa43575-22/aa43575-22.html

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00369

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234065515_Detection_of_interstellar_trans-ethyl_alcohol

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