Water is essential for life as we know it. However, we don't know how it reached the Earth and whether the same processes could seed planets orbiting distant stars. Now, @NASAWebb has measured water vapor in a planet-forming disk 370 light-years away. https://go.nasa.gov/43FDRem #NASAExoplanets
New measurements by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) have detected water vapor in the system’s inner disk, at distances of less than 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) from the star – the region where rocky, …
