Source: NASA
Authors: NASA Webb Mission Team
Published Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:09:38 +0000
Groundbreaking Discovery by Webb Telescope Reveals Carbon-Rich Disk Around Young Star ISO-ChaI 147
ByHelium3.Space News
Jun 14, 2024
This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk around a young and very low-mass star known as ISO-ChaI 147. The results reveal the richest hydrocarbon chemistry seen to date in a protoplanetary disk.
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