European Telescope Detection of Oxygen in Space

If the previous Scientists has found the Largest Water Clouds in the Universe, now Hubble European Space Agency's Herschel has found the first evidence regarding the confirmation of the presence of molecular oxygen in space, according to a report published this week in the journal Astrophysics.

The road has always eluded astronomers are the stars of the constellation Orion.

"Oxygen gas discovered in the 1770s, but it took more than 230 years to finally say with certainty that these simple molecules exist in space," says Paul Goldsmith, Herschel Project Scientist in the laboratory of the agency NASA in California.

Astronomers say that the oxygen in the ice covering the surface of small dust grains, releasing water and oxygen when heated.

"This explains a little oxygen can hide," said Goldsmith.

"But I found it in large quantities, and still do not understand what is so special that we found it. The universe still hold many secrets."

NASA offers several technologies to support scientific instruments Herschel Telescope, launched in 2009.

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