{"id":207593,"date":"2025-03-02T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-discover-new-sources-for-the-molecule-that-made-the-universe"},"modified":"2025-03-02T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:15:12","slug":"scientists-discover-new-sources-for-the-molecule-that-made-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-discover-new-sources-for-the-molecule-that-made-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new sources for \u2018the molecule that made the universe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-new-sources-for-the-molecule-that-made-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From helping catalyze interstellar reactions and fueling the birth of stars to its presence in neighborhood gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter, trihydrogen, or H3+, is best known as the \u201cthe molecule that made the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While we have a clear picture of how the majority of H3+ is formed\u2014a hydrogen molecule, or H2, colliding with its ionized counterpart, H2+\u2014scientists are keen to understand alternative sources of H3+ and to better measure its abundance throughout the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a new paper appearing in Nature Communications, Michigan State researchers Piotr Piecuch and Marcos Dantus and their groups and collaborators have provided unprecedented insights into the formation of H3+ in compounds known as methyl halogens and pseudohalogens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From helping catalyze interstellar reactions and fueling the birth of stars to its presence in neighborhood gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter, trihydrogen, or H3+, is best known as the \u201cthe molecule that made the universe.\u201d While we have a clear picture of how the majority of H3+ is formed\u2014a hydrogen molecule, or H2, colliding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207593","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}