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The Astrobiology Web: Your Online Guide to the Living Universe TM
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Life's Far-Flung Raw Materials This article from the July 1999 issue of Scientific American explores the belief held by many astrochemists that "life may owe its start to complex organic molecules manufactured in the icy heart of an interstellar cloud".
Photochemical evolution of interstellar/precometary organic materialThis paper examines the inetraction of cometary materials and light over time and the complex organic compounds that may form as a result. From "Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe."
What is Astrochemistry? Astrochemistry is the study of chemistry in space. More specifically, it is the study of the chemical interactions between the gases and dust interspersed between the stars. This page provides an overview on the topic.
Report of the Galactic Molecular Clouds and Astrochemistry Working
Group This site at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) presents an overview of astrochemistry.
Molecular Clouds in Galaxies This site at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) describes potential research into Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), which are the birthplaces of stars and how stars form and how they affect the interstellar medium and the chemical evolution of galactic disks.
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) ALMA is a millimeter wavelength telescope that includes 64 12-meter antennas located at an elevation of 16,400 feet in Llano de Chajnantor, Chile. This array features a spatial resolution of 10 milliarcseconds, 10 times better than the VLA and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Production of Organic Molecules in Cometary and Interstellar Ice Analogs by Max P. Bernstein, Scott A. Sandford, Louis J. Allamandola, and Sherwood Chang, NASA ARC
NitrogenChemistry in the Interstellar Medium by Douglas McGonagle University of Massachusetts (PhD thesis) "We have carried out radio observations for the interstellar molecules NO, NS, and HCCN in order to investigate the role of nitrogen in the chemistry of the interstellar medium. Abundances of these species and implications for chemistry models are discussed".
The Chemical and Physical Structure of Giant Molecular Cloud Cores by Edwin A. Bergin, University of Massachusetts (PhD thesis) "We present the results of a study of the emission from 33 molecular transitions in the GMC cores Orion A, M17, and Cepheus A and have used these observations to probe the physical and chemical structure within each core."
NIST Recommended Rest Frequencies for Observed Interstellar Molecular Microwave Transitions This interactive website has a form interface that provides selective search and retrieval capability from the set of recommended frequencies.
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Astrochemistry Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center This laboratory specializes in the study of extraterrestrial materials and their analogs. The staff has pioneered laboratory studies of space environments including interstellar, cometary, and planetary ices. This lab is part of NASA's Astrobiology Institute.
Astrochemistry Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center This organization has the mission to develop a better understanding of Atmospheric and/or Astrophysical phenomena based on new knowledge of chemical physics of the underlying molecular processes and does research into chemistry of planetary atmospheres, cometary free radicals, interstellar and cometary grains/ices and planetary ices, meteorite magnetism and magnetic mineralogy of terrestrial planets.
JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Molecular spectroscopy is the study of absorption of light by molecules. The JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Team supports NASA programs in Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Planetary Science. Its activities include measurement of rotational lines, fitting the lines, and preparing a catalog of line positions and intensities.
New York Center for studies of the Origin of Life This center is a NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training (NSCORT) and is hosted at members at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This center works to understand the origins of life on Earth and promotes education and research in all relevant fields of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Astrophysics.
NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training (NSCORT) in Exobiology This center, hosted by lthe University of California San Diego, Scripps Research Institute, and the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, focuses on the conditions, substances and chemical reactions of primitive Earth and its extraterrestrial environment, beginning about 4.6 billion years ago.
Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere This journal features papers regarding the origins of life with topics ranging from cometary sources of organics, the possible role of marine hydrothermal systems on the chemistry of the primitive earth, and the "RNA world".
Molecular Astrophysics This website describes the research into molecular astrophysics and astrochemistry in the Department of Astronomy at Leiden Observatory.
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