Webb Spots Intriguing Molecular Signals on Possible Water World
Dimethyl sulfide is only known to be produced by living things on Earth, but the signature requires further investigation.
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Dimethyl sulfide is only known to be produced by living things on Earth, but the signature requires further investigation.
The Webb Space Telescope recently turned its focus to a nearby exoplanet and found that it may be a Hycean world, or a world completely covered in a single global ocean, and with a hydrogen atmosphere. And what’s more, the telescope detected a possible detection—note, possible detection, of dimethyl sulfide, a molecule only known to be produced on Earth by living organisms.
The JWST team announced that a mode of one of the observatory's infrared sensors indicated a reduction in the amount of light registered by the instrument.
The JWST team announced that a mode of one of the observatory's infrared sensors indicated a reduction in the amount of light registered by the instrument.
Spectroscopy, the study of how matter interacts with light, helps scientists reveal key details about very distant and dim objects in space.