Webb has made a groundbreaking detection of a crucial carbon molecule in space.
. The compound, known as methyl cation , is a vital molecule for more complex carbon-based molecules.known as d203-506. The system is located about 1,350 light-years from Earth in the Orion Nebula, a popular target for telescopes such as Webb and Hubble.“Carbon compounds form the foundations of all known life, and as such are particularly interesting to scientists working to understand both how life developed on Earth, and how it could potentially develop elsewhere in our universe.
“This detection not only validates the incredible sensitivity of Webb but also confirms the postulated central importance of CHin interstellar chemistry,” says Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel of the University of Paris-Saclay in France, a member of the science team. “This image taken by Webb’s NIRCam shows a part of the Orion Nebula known as the Orion Bar. It is a region where energetic ultraviolet light from the Trapezium Cluster — located off the upper-left corner — interacts with dense molecular clouds. The energy of the stellar radiation is slowly eroding the Orion Bar, and this has a profound effect on the molecules and chemistry in the protoplanetary disks that have formed around newborn stars here.
“This clearly shows that ultraviolet radiation can completely change the chemistry of a protoplanetary disk. It might actually play a critical role in the early chemical stages of the origins of life,” elaborates Olivier Berné of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Toulouse, lead author of the“While we have hypothesized for some time methyl cation existed in the universe, it was purely theoretical until now,” says Western University astrophysicist Els Peeters in a.
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