Researchers at the University of Hong Kong claimed to have solved the mystery of "Unidentified Infared Emission features" that have been detected in stars, interstellar space, and galaxies. Observations of stardust formed in exploding stars called novae have chemical structures of a type of organic matter only thought to arise from living organisms.
Stars have no problem making complex organic compounds under near-vacuum conditions. Researchers say that not only are they producing on extremely short times scales of weeks but they are also injecting it into the general interstellar space in between stars. Silas was right. There is something magical in that "space between things" and it's called stardust!
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