{"id":194871,"date":"2024-08-21T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/astronomers-explain-rapid-formation-of-organic-macromolecules-in-protoplanetary-disks-around-young-stars"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:22:54","slug":"astronomers-explain-rapid-formation-of-organic-macromolecules-in-protoplanetary-disks-around-young-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/astronomers-explain-rapid-formation-of-organic-macromolecules-in-protoplanetary-disks-around-young-stars","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers explain Rapid Formation of Organic Macromolecules in Protoplanetary Disks around Young Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-explain-rapid-formation-of-organic-macromolecules-in-protoplanetary-disks-around-young-stars3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Computer modeling shows how macromolecules form quickly in gas &amp; dust disks around young stars, aiding understanding of exoplanet.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers explain #Rapid #Formation of #Organic #Macromolecules in #Protoplanetary #Disks around #Young #Stars.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An international team of researchers led by the University of Bern has used observation-based computer modeling to find an explanation for how macromolecules can form in a short time in disks of gas and dust around young stars. These findings could be crucial for understanding how habitability develops around different types of exoplanets and stars.<\/p>\n<p>Organic macromolecules are regarded as the building blocks of life, as they are of crucial importance for the life-friendly carbon and nitrogen composition of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary scientists have long assumed that the organic macromolecules that make the Earth suitable for life come from so-called chondrites. Chondrites are rocky building blocks from which the Earth was formed around 4.6 billion years ago and which we know today as meteorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer modeling shows how macromolecules form quickly in gas &amp; dust disks around young stars, aiding understanding of exoplanet. Astronomers explain #Rapid #Formation of #Organic #Macromolecules in #Protoplanetary #Disks around #Young #Stars. An international team of researchers led by the University of Bern has used observation-based computer modeling to find an explanation for how macromolecules [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}