Webb detects water vapour in rocky planet-forming zone

Artist’s impression of the PDS 70 system

New measurements by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) has detected water vapour in the inner disc of the system PDS 70, located 370 light-years away. This is the first detection of water in the terrestrial region of a disc already known to host two or more protoplanets.




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Source: ESA Space News