<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9cf71561-96a0-402a-91cf-0b78c8ce685a/552B3F6C-089E-4C67-B241-4FDBD674D6E6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/51636B55-B11B-4AFD-8E20-38FA004AC1AD" alt="This artist's conception shows a young, hypothetical planet around a cool star. Credit: JPL" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/">But there’s also the possibility of life “as we <STRONG>don’t</STRONG> know it</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/">NASA’s Spitzer Space <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/telescopes/">Telescope</A> hints that planets around <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/">stars</A> cooler than our sun might possess a different mix of potentially life-forming, or “prebiotic,” chemicals.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/"><P>The researchers detected hydrogen cyanide molecules in disks circling 30 percent of the <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/yellow-stars/">yellow stars</A> like our sun — but found none around cooler and smaller stars, such as the reddish-colored “M-dwarfs” and “brown dwarfs” common throughout the universe. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/3AC6CCF6-5F1A-4F69-9CEB-BCDEA2089AAD" alt="Cool Stars May Have Different Prebiotic Chemical Mix" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/">Perhaps ultraviolet light, which is much stronger around <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/">the sun</A>-like stars, may drive a higher production of the hydrogen cyanide</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/">Prebiotic molecules, such as adenine, are thought to have rained down to our young planet via meteorites that crashed on the surface.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/">It is plausible that life on Earth was kick-started by a rich supply of molecules delivered from space</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/07/would-life-form-differently-around-cool-stars/">M-dwarfs have extreme magnetic outbursts that could be disruptive to developing life</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/552B3F6C-089E-4C67-B241-4FDBD674D6E6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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