The building blocks of life can form rapidly around young stars

[Grim Reaper 6]

Scientists have long queried how the complex molecules needed for life could have formed around the tumultuous and violent environment of the sun in its youth.

A family of meteorites called "chondrites" is theorized to have delivered the right stuff for life to Earth. But the question is, how did complex organic molecules containing elements like carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen come to be sealed in these meteorites in the first place?

New research suggests that the "hot spot" for the formation of these macromolecules, the essential building blocks of life, may be so-called "dust traps" in swirling disks of matter around infant stars. Here, intense starlight from the central young star could irradiate the accumulating ice and dust to form carbon-containing macromolecules in just decades, which is relatively rapid..

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/the-building-blocks-of-life-can-form-rapidly-around-young-stars

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Edited August 4 by Grim Reaper 6

[Ell]

Maybe carbon was expelled by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_star ?

[Grim Reaper 6]

8 hours ago, Ell said:

Maybe carbon was expelled by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_star ?

That was only part of the compounds that are created during star formation. The article in the link makes everything very clear EII.