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Illinois researchers

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Undergraduate student Lily Kettler, left, professor Joaquin Vieira and graduate student Kedar Phadke are part of an international team that detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years from Earth – the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist.

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