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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope bites cosmic burger to create 1st ice map of planet-forming disk

A blurry blob of red surrounded by blurry blobs of blue and green.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to paint a picture of burger-shaped, planet-forming material around a young star.

The tasty investigation conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope's Ice Age team has led to the creation of the first detailed 2-dimensional inventory of ice in a so-called protoplanetary disk  —  the type of structure from which our solar system's planets emerged some 4.5 billion years ago. 

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