ESA - Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth possible. Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas – specifically water vapour – around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time, proving that water from the primordial Solar System can be preserved as ice in that region. However...
Michael Kelley Stefanie Milam Heidi Hammel University Of Maryland Research In Astronomy Association Of Universities
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