What is star jelly?
Star Jelly is a semi -fryer gelatinous substance allegedly stored on the ground during meteor showers. Star jelly phenomenon was observed from at least 1641 and probably much earlier. In Welsh, Star Jelly is known as Pwdre Sêr ("Rot of the Stars").
The 1979 long article in the paranormal fate The magazine claimed that Star Jelly had an extraterrestrial origin and forms a "cellular organic matter", which exists as "prestellar moleculas" by traveling through space. Some paranormal enthusiasts attracted the connection between the star jelly and the idea of atmospheric animals and called the jelly remnants of these animals. The scientific explanation for the star jelly is that Stargazers are witnessing a meteor shower, then run in a direction where they think they have fallen, just to find the existing slime, be it slime, nostoc or lichens. Nostoc, on particles, freshwater cyanobacteria, has the potential to quickly form colonies on open soil and appear as a mysterious slime. It's funny that nostoc isedible, rich in protein and vitamin C and is grown in China, Java and Japan for human consumption. So "star jelly" can be edible.
In fact, the meteors can hardly get to the ground. Most burn tens of kilometers above the surface. Keep in mind that meteors are usually made of rock or even iron - if they had jelly element, it would be burned by the farthest layers of the Earth's atmosphere. When it was clear that "star jelly" could not be connected to meteor shower, paranormalists tried to connect it to molecular clouds, which is an even less likely source of material.
Molecular clouds really exist - astronomers are observed regularly. However, these molecular clouds are often very different - thousands or millions more than air, not to mention that there are many hundreds or thousands of light years. Astronomers would observe anyA molecular cloud of a noticeable size that blocks the starlight long before it reaches the ground. Even small molecular clouds would be observed by astronauts on the shuttle or the international space station, but none of them was observed. In fact, our solar system has a mass density greater than the density of any prestellar molecular cloud, because our solar system is the result of a molecular cloud that collapsed under its own gravity. Our solar system is dispersed with dust, but none of it in the form of jelly.