Scientists recreated cosmic dust in a Sydney laboratory to study how life’s building blocks reached Earth.
Cosmic dust comes from dying stars and falls to Earth as meteorites and micrometeorites.
The dust contains organic CHON molecules essential for life.
University of Sydney researcher Linda Losurdo produced the dust from scratch using plasma physics.
She simulated space conditions inside a vacuum tube filled with star-like gases.
High voltage transformed the gases into plasma, forming dust analogues.
Scientists compared the dust’s infrared fingerprint with real meteorites.
The work may explain how organic matter arrived on early Earth.
Researchers hope the method will aid studies of life formation on other planets.
Sydney Scientists Recreate Cosmic Dust to Probe Life’s Origins
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