Did the Taurus constellation become the ingredients of life on earth

Elemental a large molecule of carbon has been found in the molecular cloud of the Taurus constellation. It is located about 430 light years from Earth.

The discovery is significant. You see, it offers more clues to the puzzle, which can help solve one of the mysteries of astronomy and chemistry.

Where did carbon, that important building block of life, come to earth?

The molecule found is pyrene. Chemically, it consists of four planar elemental carbon rings.

To be precise, the researchers found a molecule with a cyanide molecule attached to the side of pyrene.

Pyrenees classified in chemistry as polycyclic aromatic to hydrocarbon (pah).

In space, evils were first observed already in the 1960s from stone meteorites, of chondrites.

A chondrite is a meteorite that contains different minerals. They originate from the primordial gas clouds of our solar system.

Stars and solar systems are usually born in gas clouds. Such were already formed in the universe more than 4.6 billion years ago.

Astronomers believe that PAHs make up about 20 percent of the carbon found in space.

Researchers began looking for pyrene and other PAH compounds in the gas and dust clouds of the Taurus constellation. One reason for the search was asteroid Ryugu. The Japanese brought from an asteroid samples until 2023.

Evil occurs at different stages of the life cycle of stars, from the birth of stars to the end of their life cycle.

The stability and toughness of the villains against the ultraviolet radiation of space makes the villains strong. So the bad guys survive in the harsh conditions of deep space.

Carbon compounds, like bad things, react sensitively with other elements. Therefore, they are common throughout the universe, including in all living things, including us.

Researchers began looking for pyrene and other PAH compounds in the dust clouds of the Taurus constellation.

One reason for the search was asteroid Ryugu. The Japanese brought from that asteroid samples until 2023.

of Pah molecules finding the birthplace of our solar system may provide a direct link to the early stages of the solar system. Astronomers have been looking for such a connection for a long time.

“We have pretty strong evidence that this early molecular cloud material finds its way into the bodies of ice, dust and rock that make up our own solar system.”

It is also interesting that the temperature of the found cloud was measured to be freezing – 263 degrees Celsius.

It is only about ten degrees warmer than the coldest state, absolute zero, which is -273.15 degrees Celsius.

It was a surprise because PAH compounds are formed at high temperatures on Earth. Finding the villains this cold was therefore surprising.

The discovery was made by studying dust clouds and their radio spectra using radio astronomy. The search was made with equipment at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.

With the help of precise radio telescopes, you can also observe individual molecules in space, instead of generally studying groups of molecules.

Single a molecule is found when you detect the molecule’s “fingerprints”. They are electromagnetic radiation. The molecule emits or absorbs radiation at certain frequencies.

“This is the seventh single pah identified from space since we first discovered one in 2021,” said an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia in Canada Ilsa Cooke.

“PAH compounds have the same chemical structures as the building blocks of life,” he says of the university in the bulletin.

“As we learn more about how these molecules were formed and how they travel through space, we also learn more about our own solar system and its life,” says Cooke.

Astronomers estimate that pyrene accounts for about 0.1 percent of the carbon found in the cloud. The number sounds small.

“It’s huge. An incredible carbon sink,” says the chemist Brett McGuire online service Space.comin by. He is an assistant professor of chemistry at MIT University near Boston.

Now astronomers are investigating whether PAH compounds could also be formed in extreme cold. Or do they come from elsewhere in the universe?

When a star dies, in its death throes – and very hot – it spews elements from its interior into space, usually a lot of carbon as well.