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Queechee native and astronomy and physics student makes scientific discovery all before completing his college degree. Why the find is significant.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a glowing disc of debris left over from planet formation around a nearby star called AU Microscopii

Galaxy. we're really looking all the way back to when large structures like these first formed in our universe. but when you look at those images that you just showed, those are actually in our galaxy and nearby. because webb views in the infrared, they can actually see through a lot of the dust, a lot of the gas, and see what lies within, see forming stars, see forming planetary systems. so this is really a new eye on the universe not just in its ability to look deep into the universe, but also in its ability to have what is essentially x-ray vision and look inside of these familiar nebuli to...

It had been previously thought that planets only form once a star has reached its final size.

New simulations show that planets around young, massive stars may have been captured or stolen rather than homegrown.