On our world, water is life. But how did it get here? Are there similar environments around other stars?
Webb has us one step closer to answers. In a still-developing “solar system,” Webb detected water in the zone where rocky planets like Earth may form: https://go.nasa.gov/3O5LR2j
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Webb Detects Water Vapor in Rocky Planet-Forming Zone
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, …Jamie Adkins (NASA)