NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
Posted on 03/19/2024 10:22:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The latest discoveries were made by Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) instrument as part of the James Webb Observations of Young ProtoStars (JOYS+) program and revealed key chemical ingredients astronomers are looking for in the search for distant worlds that could be home to life.
Given that they are young protostars, IRAS 2A and IRAS 23385 do not appear to have planets in orbits around them yet. However, the detections of organic molecules around them are promising indicators for regions of future habitability.
Along with the detection of ethanol, MIRI has also detected what astronomers believe is probably acetic acid, an ingredient commonly found in vinegar, among the organic molecules recently detected.
Initially detected in the gaseous phase during the previous research, these complex organic molecules have now been detected in the solid phase, a likely result of sublimation, which involves rapid changes from solid to gas without a liquid phase...
Another key factor regarding their presence within ice is that they may eventually be incorporated into the comets and asteroids, where they may be carried for long periods until they potentially collide with a newly formed planet...
Eventually, these molecules carried along in ice for long periods may become part of new planetary systems once the ice makes its way closer to the inner region of the planet-forming disk that takes shape as a protostellar system evolves.
In addition to complex organic molecules like ethanol and acetic acid, simpler molecules that include formic acid, methane, and formaldehyde were also present around the protostars.
Sulfur dioxide was also detected, a compound that could be vital in the production of metabolic reactions that occurred early in our planet's history.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedebrief.org ...
Thanks for the link.
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Alcohol and ice?
Space cocktail!
big whoop
That’s my thinking too — there’s a bunch of extraterrestrials having a rager.
Cheers!
“D****t, I’m a doctor not a barten- oh wait, yeah I am.”
Are these planets over 21 million years?..................
“...their presence within ice is that they may eventually be incorporated into the comets and asteroids, where they may be carried for long periods until they potentially collide with a newly formed planet...”
Or an old one. Does that constitute violating the dram shop and that they transported alcohol over state lines for the purpose of sales without a tax exemption, sales permit, or the ability to determine if the receiver was over their limit? Course it’s going to be hard for local law enforcement to serve papers on them. We need the Biden administration to start on this immediately so we will have a law, by way of a bill, to enforce interplanet commerce. This way they can tax NASA, and any private company, to garnish funds to enforce this law. (Don’t put it past them)
wy69
Scientismists strike another blow against the claim for intelligent life being found on planet earth.
Evolution: a dreary little theory that is mired in an infinite loop of randomness, never to free itself. The best mechanic, Stephen Jay Gould, took two attempts to free it, and lost and checked out. And so it goes.
It is astonishing that we can pinpoint these chemical species at a particular star or star-pair at such distances.
“Sulfur dioxide was also detected...”
Don’t those ETs know about acid rain? Why haven’t they invented SO2 scrubbers for their coal fired power plants? Don’t they care about their environments?
🎼 In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks....
Alcohol? Who distilled it?
I broke the rules and read the article, and can’t find any indication of how far away these protostars are. Even if they have whiskey, Kentucky and Tennessee or the local liquor store are closer.
Ethanol and acetic acid are NOT complex organic molecules. Why don’t one of those prognosticators take off to one of those areas to really find out. Sick of the space-life hype.
What they are looking at is a snapshot of what those heavenly bodies looked like a long time ago. If they go there they may find out that the heavenly bodies are gone.
A bar in outer space, kewl. Perhaps it’s the one we saw in the first Start Wars movie. The only one I actually saw, because I hated the movie.
Shaken, not stirred.
The whiskey Stars! About time!
Stick with your Putin boosterism, it's the only thing you're good at.
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