All of Life’s Ingredients Found in Orion Nebula
Unprecedented high resolutionHIFI was designed to provide extremely high-resolution spectra and to open new wavelength ranges for investigation, which are inaccessible to ground-based telescopes. "It is astonishing to see how well HIFI works," said Frank Helmich, HIFI principal investigator of SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. "We obtained this spectrum in a few hours and it already beats any other spectrum, at any other wavelength, ever taken of Orion. Organics are everywhere in this spectrum, even at the lowest levels, which hints at the fidelity of HIFI. The development of HIFI took eight years but it was really worth waiting for.""HIFI's unprecedented high resolution and stability allows us to construct very detailed models of the density and temperature structure of star-forming clouds," said Tom Phillips of the California Institute for Technology. "This view allows us to pierce the veil of star formation and more directly study the chemistry associated wit
All of Life’s Ingredients Found in Orion Nebula
The ingredients for life as we know it have been found in the Orion Nebula. By finely separating the spectrum of incoming light, astronomers are able to detect the chemical fingerprints of molecules ...
Mon 8 Mar 10 from Wired Science
Herschel Finds Possible Life-Enabling Molecules in Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky ...
Thu 4 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
Life-Enabling Molecules Spotted in Orion Nebula
NASA's Herschel telescope finds signatures of life-enabling molecules in Orion nebula.
Thu 11 Mar 10 from SPACE.com
Organic molecules discovered in Orion Nebula
ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has discovered organic molecules in the Orion Nebula - potential signs of life. read more
Fri 5 Mar 10 from TG Daily
The Precursors of Life-enabling Molecules in the Orion Nebula
Unprecedented high resolutionHIFI was designed to provide extremely high-resolution spectra and to open new wavelength ranges for investigation, which are inaccessible to ground-based telescopes. ...
Thu 4 Mar 10 from RedOrbit
Precursors of life-enabling organic molecules in Orion Nebula unveiled by Herschel Space Observatory
ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potential life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion Nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.
Thu 4 Mar 10 from ScienceDaily
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