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Your daily Wikipedia-found “huh!” moment:

• Tholins are large, complicated polymers of hydrocarbons and their other organic molecule buddies. While not found on Earth, they are found in the outer solar system and even in the atmospheric composition of a planet 220 lightyears away. Not per se evidence of life but a major bundle of muddy goop that extremophile life could find useful. Formed from irradiated gases, this stuff dynamically forms and turns into clumps of grossness that very well could be the first foodstuffs for cellular organisms.

Class dismissed!