Researchers have definitively identified nitrous oxide (N₂O), commonly known as "laughing gas," within the solid ice mantles coating dust particles around young #protostars
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UrFU Researchers Discovered “Laughing Gas” in Interstellar Ices around Protostars

More than 300 different molecules have been identified in the gas clouds that form stars and planets