{"id":746244,"date":"2023-01-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746244"},"modified":"2023-01-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:00:00","slug":"webbs-view-of-the-molecular-cloud-chameleon-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746244","title":{"rendered":"Webb\u2019s view of the molecular cloud Chameleon I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:00:30<\/p>\n<p>This video features a new image from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope\u2019s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), showcasing the low-mass star forming region Chameleon I.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of diverse ices in the darkest, coldest regions of a molecular cloud measured to date by studying this region. This result allows astronomers to examine the simple icy molecules that will be incorporated into future exoplanets, while opening a new window on the origin of more complex molecules that are the first step in the creation of the building blocks of life.<\/p>\n<p>This research forms part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jwst-iceage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ice Age project<\/a>, one of Webb&#8217;s 13\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stsci.edu\/jwst\/science-execution\/approved-ers-programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Early Release Science<\/a>\u00a0programs, which has studied a dust ridge in the centre of the Chameleon I molecular cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Music: Stellardrone \u2013 Twilight<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/01\/Webb_s_view_of_the_molecular_cloud_Chameleon_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Webb\u2019s view of the molecular cloud Chameleon I<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:00:30 This video features a new image from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope\u2019s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), showcasing the low-mass star forming region Chameleon I. An international team of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}