Baby planets marinate in a life-giving cyanide 'soup,' analysis reveals

"An astounding 20 papers from this extensive mapping project are being published in a special future issue of The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series; the first of these papers was made available on the preprint server arXiv on Sept. 15."

Yes, *astounding 20 papers* is a good description. An example of one of the stars reported in these papers. The protoplanetary disk model allows disk mass for HD 163296 to range 5527 earth masses up to 386214 earth masses. Apply this range to the Sun as a one solar mass star and we have upper mass limit for the proto-sun and early solar system accretion disk model, 193107 earth masses, and the lower value 2763 earth masses. This is a very large disk mass range reported and consider what space.com report stated. "Overall, the research shows that there's plenty more to learn about what surrounds young stars, how planets form and what that means for the universe and life's prospects in it."

This item caught my eye while reading the space.com report today. "One of the most exciting findings for her was the abundance and distribution of a class of molecules known as cyanides. The simplest member of this family, hydrogen cyanide, is typically considered a poison, though many theories for the origin of life include a major role for this chemical class, she said. "Seeing them in large abundance means planets are forming in the kind of soup we'd like to see" in order to fuel the emergence of life, Öberg added."

Apparently in abiogenesis explanation for the origin of life, starting conditions require poison. Using this model of origins, poison gave birth to life on earth that later evolved into Darwin's abominable mystery - explosion of plants found in the fossil record. Charles Darwin abominable mystery is still a mystery today.

"Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Accelerates As mentioned in the previous article in this series, about 20 years after Darwin published his famous book on evolution, he penned a letter to his close friend, the renowned botanist Joseph Hooker, griping, “The rapid development as far as we can judge of all the higher plants within recent geological times is an abominable mystery.”1,2 The primary reason for Darwin’s claim of an abominable mystery was the sudden and massive appearance of numerous kinds of flowering plants known as angiosperms, which first began showing up in the Cretaceous and then exploded in the Cenozoic. In a recent paper, British botanist and evolutionary expert Richard Buggs showed that Darwin mainly considered the mystery to be abominable because the leading paleobotanists of his time such as his friend Oswald Heer and his evolutionary critic William Carruthers saw it as evidence for the work of a Creator.3 This glaring problem deeply bothered Darwin because the fossil record did not support his theory. A 2016 research paper assessed the current extent of angiosperms in the paleontology databases. The authors claimed, “The Cenozoic angiosperm macrofossil record is extraordinarily rich” and “the diversification of angiosperms during the Cenozoic, and the causes of such changes in diversity, remains unclear.”4 In other words, Darwin’s mystery is more abominable for evolution today than it has ever been."

So the astounding 20 papers from ALMA show gas and dust of various mass amounts in wide variation amounts with apparently a poison condition used to kick start the origin of life via abiogenesis on some early planet like earth. Somehow all of those initial conditions created Darwin's abominable mystery concerning plants here on earth.
 
Hydrogen Cyanide In Protoplanetary Disks, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AAS...23125708W/abstract, January 2018. "The chemistry behind star and planet formation is extremely complex and important in the formation of habitable planets. Life requires molecules containing carbon, oxygen, and importantly, nitrogen. Hydrogen cyanide, or HCN, one of the main interstellar nitrogen carriers, is extremely dangerous here on Earth. However, it could be used as a vital tool for tracking the chemistry of potentially habitable planets...The disk environment informs us about stability of habitable planets that are created based on HCN molecules. We reviewed and compared the difference in the molecules with a variety of locations in the disk and ultimately giving us a better understanding on how we view protoplanetary disks."

Such initial conditions for explaining the origin of life on earth or other habitable exoplanets for example, given enough time and random activity in nature, results in what we see today in the fossil record like the explosion of plants and plants on earth today. A very interesting model of origins here.
 

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