Webb study reveals rocky planets can form in extreme environments

Paris (ESA) Dec 01, 2023
An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disc in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy. These results suggest that the conditions for rocky-planet formation, typically found in discs in regions where low-mass stars are