The exoplanet that seems like a rotten-egg world

 

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This exoplanet smells like rotten eggs. It is too hot for life.  

The exoplanet HD 189733 b, located about 64 light-years from Earth, has a chemical composition so distinct that astronomers can practically smell it from across the galaxy. A recent James Webb Space Telescope study of the planet found that its atmosphere contains significant amount  of hydrogen sulphide — a toxic and flammable gas given off by decaying organic matter and volcanoes on Earth — which smells like rotten eggs. The smelly egg planet is far too hot for life to exist.

The mere fact that scientists can detect such distinct molecules in its atmosphere is a good sign. For evolutionists, that JWST may soon be able to detect signatures of life elsewhere in the universe.

This is just speculation formed by Darwinism.

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Brandon Specktor 2024. 32 alien planets that really exist | Live Science 2. October.

Living microbes found deep inside ”2 -billion-year-old” rock

 

Image courtesy of . Suzuki, S. J. Webb, M. Kouduka et al. 2024/ Microbial Ecology

Joel Kontinen

Millions of years and evolution seem to go together,  yet research says that here are faults in dating methods is significant that the Darwinist will be silent on.

For them, millions of years is almost  secret, that cannot be disproved.

New Stcitentis says:

“Microorganisms have been found living in tiny cracks within a 2-billion-year-old rock in South Africa, making this the oldest known rock to host life. The discovery could offer new insights into the origins of life on Earth and may even guide the search for life beyond our planet.

We already knew that deep within Earth’s crust, far removed from sunlight, oxygen and food sources, billions of resilient micro-organisms survive. Living in extreme isolation, these slow-growing microbes divide at a glacial pace, sometimes taking thousands or even millions of years to complete cell division.

“So far, the oldest rocks in which microbes have been found are 100-million-year-old seafloor sediments,” says Yohey Suzuki at the University of Tokyo. “We know it’s possible that microbes can grow using something in these ancient rocks.”

Now, Suzuki and his colleagues have pushed that record back by nearly 2 billion years. They obtained a 30-centimetre-long cylindrical rock core from 15 metres below the surface of the Bushveld Igneous Complex in north-eastern South Africa, a vast formation of volcanic rock that formed more than 2 billion years ago. When they sliced open the core, they discovered microbial cells living in the rock’s tiny fractures.”

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Chen Ly, 2024. Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock | New Scientist 10 October.

The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why

 

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Joel Kontinen  

The first brown dwarf was a mystery, but it is not a single star. God can make what He did  in surprising ways.

”An odd star that has confused researchers for decades now makes sense – it turns out not to be a single star but two companions.

“It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried that we were doing something horribly wrong, or that our models were horribly wrong. But, no, everything’s fine. It just has a friend,” says Timothy Brandt at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland

Now, two research teams have used instruments at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope in Chile to unravel the mystery of the first brown dwarf.

Brown dwarfs are “failed stars” in that they have too little matter and are too cool to sustain nuclear 2fusion. They become faint in the night sky, similar to planets, instead of burning bright for millennia. The first brown dwarf, called Gliese 229B, was discovered in 1995, but its mass was inexplicably large, says Jerry Xuan at the California Institute of Technology, who worked on one of the studies.”

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, 2024 The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why | New Scientist 16 October.

 

 

NASA set to launch Europa probe to search for signs of habitability

 

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Joel Kontinen

A 6000-kilogram spacecraft will embark on a six-year journey to Jupiter to explore whether its icy moon Europa has the conditions to support life.

Could NASA a find life on Europa?

According to some evolutionists, “The largest spacecraft ever created NASA for an interplanetary mission will launch today to determine whether Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has an environment that could support life.

The Europa Clipper mission is expected to launch at 12:06 pm local time aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, having been delayed by several days as a precaution because of Hurricane Milton.

Europa is the smallest of the so-called Galilean moons, which are Jupiter’s four largest moons. It is slightly smaller than our own moon and is of particular interest to scientists. Previous observations have indicated that Europa has a vast subsurface ocean, and this mission is designed to explore the possibility that life could reside within it.

With its solar arrays deployed that Europa has a vast subsurface ocean, and this mission is designed to explore the possibility that life could reside within it.

With its solar arrays deployed, Europa Clipper spans more than 30 metres and weighs 3241 kilograms without propellant, which will add a further 2750 kilograms.

The spacecraft will take around six years to travel 2.9 billion kilometres to its rendezvous with Jupiter in April 2030, using the gravity. of Mars and then Earth to boost its speed.”

 Some believers in evolution have supposed that Europa is teeming with life, but only God can bring it about.

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 Matthew Sparkes 2024 NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of habitability | New Scientist 14 October.

The water world with (potentially) living oceans

 

Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

Will this exoplanet have life?

K2-18 b is a large world located about 120 light-years from the sun. It inhabits the Goldilocks zone around its star, meaning at liquid water (and potentially life) could exist there.

A recent analysis with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) supports the idea that the exoplanet may have its own liquid water ocean — and that the ocean may be home to living creatures. But probably not little green men.

In the study, JWST detected possible traces of dimethyl sulfide, a chemical known to be emitted only by phytoplankton on Earth, in the exoplanet's atmosphere.

But scientist have been adamant that such things happened on  Venus, which will not support life.

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Brandon Specktor 2024 32 alien planets that really exist (msn.com)  2 October.

Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet

 Image courtesy of Carlos de Saa/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Joel Kontinen

The ion tail of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak across the northern hemisphere sky during October, in a rare event thought to happen only every few decades.

Can the Earth go through the iron tail of a comet?

It is a fact, but it will be comfortable with no risks.  

”Earth is about to have a close encounter with a comet, possibly passing through its ion tail – a rare occurrence. If we are lucky, it could show up as a blue streak in the northern hemisphere night sky.

Samuel Grant at University College London and Geraint Jones at the European Space Agency say there is a good chance that tonight, 10 October, our planet will intersect the path of the ion tail of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS).”

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Jonathan O’Callaghan 2024. Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet | New Scientist 10 October 

 

What is the largest exoplanet in the universe?

 

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Joel Kontinen

The giant exoplanet LS 3154b has scientists scratching their heads, because it seems far too large for its tiny star. 

This planet is too large compared to its sun.

“This planet, which is about 13 times more massive than Earth but orbits a star nine times less massive than the sun, doesn't seem like it could exist, researchers said upon its discovery in 2023. Future studies of this "impossible" world could upend the known rules of planet formation.” which is by evolutionary design.

Source:

 Brandon Specktor 2024  32 alien planets that really exist | Live Science 2. October.