Monthly Archives: March 2022

568. Star Astronomer Nashanty Brunken

Curaçao-born Leiden Observatory Masters student Nashanty Brunken (24) is part of a research team that discovered the largest organic molecule (dimethyl ether) in a planet-forming disk of gas around a young star (IRS 48), a precursor to complex organic molecules

568. Star Astronomer Nashanty Brunken

Curaçao-born Leiden Observatory Masters student Nashanty Brunken (24) is part of a research team that discovered the largest organic molecule (dimethyl ether) in a planet-forming disk of gas around a young star (IRS 48), a precursor to complex organic molecules