James Webb Just Found a Hidden Moon Factory That Shouldn_t Exist
Close your eyes and journey 625 light-years away, to a young star system where a hidden moon factory is busy at work. A quiet discovery that gives us a glimpse into the very dawn of a solar system. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first direct measurements of a carbon-rich disk of gas and dust surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha b, a world 14 to 24 times the mass of Jupiter [citation:5][citation:1]. The star system is just 2 million years old [citation:1][citation:2]. Webb detected complex carbon molecules like acetylene and benzene in this circumplanetary disk…
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