first find of methanol in warm protoplanetary disk

[notFritzArgelander]

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-discovery ... -disk.html

[helicon]

So it originally came from the cold cloud of gas that predated the warm disk - methanol cannot be created in warm environments - but the fact that it can be converted into organic molecules and proteins bodes well for the possibility that life could exist at some point. I suppose our solar system and the "cold" cloud of gas and dust from which it formed also could have contained methanol, hence a process of evolution resulting eventually in humans. So indeed, we are made of "star stuff" as Sagan said.