Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Webb Spots the 'Smoke' from Crashing Exocomets Around a Nearby Star

Artist's conception of a series of exocomets approaching a newly formed star. Credit - NASA / ESA / A. Feild / G. Bacon (STScI)

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on arXiv from Cicero Lu at the Gemini Observatory and his co-authors. This time, humanity’s most advanced space telescope found UV-fluorescent carbon monoxide in a protoplanetary debris disc for the first time ever. It also discovered some features of that disc that have considerable implications for planetary formation theory.



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