Recent research is coming to the conclusion that, during specific parts of their life-cycle, stars generate large amounts of organic matter and send them careening through the interstellar medium. This is a huge new piece of information to finding the beginnings of life on Earth. For a time now, it has been believed that life on Earth was seeded by meteorites containing the necessary building blocks for life. How those compounds showed up on space rocks has been a big open question in the theory.
