Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

 

Image courtesy of International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (Intl Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

Joel Kontinen

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin of life. Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhere.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is belching out carbon-rich chemical compounds at higher rates than almost any other comet in our solar system. One of these compounds is methanol, a key ingredient in prebiotic chemistry that hasn’t been seen in other interstellar objects.

3I/ATLAS, which is only the third visitor to our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy, appears to be quite unlike any comet from our own galactic neighbourhood. As it travelled towards the sun, an envelope of water vapour and gas rapidly grew around it, which also contained much greater amounts of carbon dioxide than we see in typical solar system comets. The comet light also appeared to be much redder than is typical, surface chemistry, and it began releasing its gases while relatively far away from the sun, an indication that it might not have passed close to another star for hundreds of millions of years, or since it left its home star system.

Millions of years and evolution are tied together in this study. Both cannot be believed. Live needs a designer, that evolution is not.

Source: 

Alex Wilkins 2025 Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life | New Scientist 5 December

Eye-ball planet is habitable?

 

Image courtesy of Benoit Gougeon, Universite de Montreal.

Joel Kontinen

NASA scientist say that an exoplanet might have an illiquid ocean and be habitable.

“The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found that a distant world. Scientists thought it was discovered several years ago could be an "eyeball" planet with iris-like ocean surrounded by a sea of solid ice — making it a candidate for a potentially habitable world. “

The exoplanet is called LHS-1140b and it is about 50 light years from us, It is 1.73 times our planet, Scientist say that it was a mini-Neptune. but now they say that it would potentially support live.

This exoplanet is situated in the "Goldilocks zone” which make it possible for live. But live can only came with intelligence that this planet does not have.

Source:

Ben Turner, 2024. 'Eyeball' planet spied by James Webb telescope might be habitable (msn.com) 10 July

Molecule responsible for robbing Venus of its water may finally have been identified

 

Venus, as seen by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft.  Image courtesy of NASA/JPL.

Joel Kontinen 

“Scientists have identified a water-loss mechanism on Venus that could explain how the once water-rich world became completely parched.”

A “molecule high in Venus' atmosphere, water escaped Venus at double the rate previously estimated. As faster water loss means less time is needed to boil away the planet's water reservoir, scientists say Venus may have harbored oceans — and potentially habitable conditions — for longer than previously thought before the drying process began.”

According to some evolutionists, "this would provide more time for possible life to arise," study co-author Eryn Cangi, a research scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) ,”

 “Prior studies suggest that both Venus and Earth likely received similar amounts of water early in their history, mostly from water vapor-spewing volcanoes and icy comets that frequently bombarded the worlds.”

But only God can give life to a planet,  

Source;

Sharmila Kuthunur 2024. Molecule responsible for robbing Venus of its water may finally have been identified (msn.com) 8 May

Wet planets do not mean the origin of live

 Image courtesy of Luongdoo.

Joel Kontinen   

How many wet planets are there? When God created the universe, the heavens were filled with wet planets. Yes, that is what Genesis 1: 6-7 tells us.

Now astronomers think that planets covered in water could be relatively common in our universe, they hope to find live, but that is a difficult matter, as live has to be created and Darwinian processes can never create live, 

 Source: 

Feehly, Conor. 2022, The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system.  New Scientist 24 October.  

Darwinists believe that live emerged in a clean pond, a report in Nature says

 

Image courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel-2/ESA,  CC BY-SA 3.0.

Joel Kontinen

Darwinists believe that live emerged in a clean little pond. Now, a report in Nature says that  - Rather than springing up from the sea, the first biological cells may have formed on land.

Water is essential to life, but it also breaks apart molecules like DNA and proteins, a paradox that has long puzzled scientists. 

Although chemists have created key components of cells by hitting chemical-based chemicals with ultraviolet (UV) radiation and subjecting them to dry and wet cycles, they have been unable to produce the same effects in seawaterlike conditions. 

Instead, researchers propose, life may have formed on bodies of water on land—perhaps formed by craters, like the Manicouagan Reservoir—where there was intermittent availability of water as well as enough UV radiation from sunlight.

However, live has much conditions to have made by just water. It only springs from the one who made it - God.

Source:

Hicks, Lucy, 2020. Scientists are rethinking where life originated on Earth. Science|10 December. 

No Hints Of Life On Venus, Sceptics Say

 

Image courtesy of NASA. 

Joel Kontinen

Last week, the blogosphere and some journals were full of the story that life was found on  the upper layers of  Venus that only living creatures on Earth could produce, .”At the centre of this debate is the molecule phosphine, or PH3, which is made from one phosphorus atom bonded to three hydrogen atoms. Phosphine is a nasty and poisonous gas for many creatures, including humans, but is produced by bacteria living in rotting sewage and swamps where oxygen is lacking, as well as in the intestines of some animals

Here on Earth, phosphine is associated with living organisms, but Venus is quite literally an alien planet, and scientists don't yet fully understand its many complex details.”

Now, some scientist doubt the results they have achieved. And some doubt the result they have made. In any case, the Venus has life is in not in the clouds but in deep water.

Source:

Mann, Adam. 2020. 'Grand claims' of life on Venus lack evidence, skeptics say. .Live Science.23 September

'Oumuamua could be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail

Kuva: ESO/M Kornmesser, nagualdesign, CC BY-SA 4.0.



Joel Kontinen


'Oumuamua could be an interstellar spacecrafts, some scientists are saying. Now, another team of them of is saying that it could be an extraterrestrial solar sail.

The study, done by Shmuel Bialy and Prof. Abraham Loeb, throws caution to the winds:

"Loeb told Universe Today, 'Oumuamua could be an active piece of alien technology that came to explore our solar system, the same way we hope to explore Alpha Centauri using Starshot and similar technologies’ ".

All indications of space life have been failures. This one could always be phantasy, not fact.

Source:

Williams, Matt. 2018. Could 'Oumuamua be an extraterrestrial solar sail? phys.org. (1 November)