{"id":3927950,"date":"2026-09-15T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/series-of-reactions-reveals-how-complex-carbon-chemistry-can-begin-in-frigid-space\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T01:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:00:42","slug":"series-of-reactions-reveals-how-complex-carbon-chemistry-can-begin-in-frigid-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/series-of-reactions-reveals-how-complex-carbon-chemistry-can-begin-in-frigid-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Series of reactions reveals how complex carbon chemistry can begin in frigid space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Before there was Earth, there was chemistry. In the unimaginable cold, dark clouds where stars and planets are born, carbon molecules assemble into more complex forms\u2014starting a chemical journey that could eventually deliver some of life&#8217;s basic ingredients to young planets. There&#8217;s only one problem: These molecules need heat to form. At least that&#8217;s what scientists have long believed. But new research from FIU chemist Alexander Mebel reveals such chemistry can actually happen at temperatures nearing absolute zero, which is -460\u00b0F (-273\u00b0C).<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-series-reactions-reveals-complex-carbon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there was Earth, there was chemistry. In the unimaginable cold, dark clouds where stars and planets are born, carbon molecules assemble into more complex forms\u2014starting a chemical journey that could eventually deliver some of life&#8217;s basic ingredients to young planets. There&#8217;s only one problem: These molecules need heat to form. At least that&#8217;s what [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}