Space. The Final frontier… a friend of mine asked me if there is chemistry in space and how it is different from the chemistry, we observe here on Earth. This is an exciting topic. So exciting that I had to make a podcast episode about it.

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Please note: I made a mistake in this episode. I called the analytical method “nucleor magnetic resonance spectroscopy” accidentally “nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry”. I apologise for this error.

Sources

My usual Wikipedia starting point

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrochemistry

· https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrochemie

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmochemistry

· https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmochemie

Relevant Physical phenomena and measurements

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero

· https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absoluter_Nullpunkt

Analytical Techniques in Astrochemistry

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_spectroscopy

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_astronomy

Incredible YouTube teaching video by The National Radio Astronomy Observatory NRAO

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU11DO08H5k&t=215s

The Miller-Urey Experiment

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment

WILD-2 comet contains basic amino acid

· https://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news115.html

Panspermia Hypothesis

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

Princeton introductory lecture notes on Astrochemistry

· https://www.astro.princeton.edu/events/spitzer_lecture_series/Lecture1.pdf

“How Stuff Works!” YouTube Video on Astrochemistry

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFzljd1l0Q

Rencontres du Vietnam: “Search for Life: From early Earth to Exoplanets” by Masatoshi Ohishi

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q84Ow3ZkODo

Harvard Lecture: Astrochemistry at the Dawn of Star and Planet Formation by Paola Caselli (YouTube)

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpq-yl5HtU