Back when the stars in our universe were initially being formed, they created rotating disks of dust and gas known as protoplanetary disks. Yet recent images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope seem to contradict that notion by showing protoplanetary disks in a dwarf galaxy adjacent to our own Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Focusing on a cluster …
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has resolved a long-standing astronomical mystery by confirming findings from the Hubble Space Telescope regarding planet formation around ancient stars. To investigate, researchers utilised Webb to study the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy with similar elemental scarcity to the early universe. They focused on NGC 346, a massive star-forming cluster where Hubble had …
Astronomers Discover Rich Carbon Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disk Around Young Star An international team of astronomers has used Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust surrounding a young, very low-mass star, revealing the largest number of carbon-containing molecules ever observed in such a disk. It is a very different planet-forming environment than we usually …
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped detect water in a young planetary system, known as PDS 70 which is 370 light-years away. According to a report by CNN, the planetary system has a star at its center and astronomers have detected water vapors in the inner disk, less than 100 million miles from the star. Combined with our detection …
