Lift up your eyes on high,
and behold who hath created these things...
Isaiah 40:26
"The Kuiper Belt, a vast disk brimming with icy bodies including Pluto and located just beyond Neptune’s orbit in our solar system, exhibits an intriguing color palette ranging from stark white to deep reddish hues on its objects.
This distinctive color range, unique among all solar system populations, has long remained a mystery.
...Chemistry researchers has replicated the environment in the Kuiper Belt to discover what is causing the array of colors in
hydrocarbon-rich surfaces of Kuiper Belt objects, providing a solution to a long-standing problem in astrophysics.
**Aromatic (organic molecules with fused benzene rings) structural units carrying up to three rings, for example in chemical compounds phenanthrene, phenalene, and acenaphthylene,
---connected by hydrogen-deficient bridges among each other were found to play a key role in producing reddish colors.
The UH experiments demonstrated the level of molecular complexity of galactic cosmic rays processing hydrocarbons and provided insight into the role played by ices...."
SciTechDaily
...Chemistry researchers has replicated the environment in the Kuiper Belt to discover what is causing the array of colors in
**Aromatic (organic molecules with fused benzene rings) structural units carrying up to three rings, for example in chemical compounds phenanthrene, phenalene, and acenaphthylene,
---connected by hydrogen-deficient bridges among each other were found to play a key role in producing reddish colors.
The UH experiments demonstrated the level of molecular complexity of galactic cosmic rays processing hydrocarbons and provided insight into the role played by ices...."
SciTechDaily
