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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope discovers water around a mysterious comet

a large rock in space from which is streaming a white cloudy haze

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted water around a rare comet located in the main asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. 

The observation represents another scientific breakthrough for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), representing the first time that gas, in this case, water vapor, has been detected around a comet in the main asteroid belt. This is important as it shows that water in the early solar system could have been preserved as ice in the main asteroid belt.

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