{"id":755650,"date":"2023-05-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=755650"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:00:00","slug":"webb-finds-water-and-a-new-mystery-in-rare-main-belt-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=755650","title":{"rendered":"Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NASA\/ESA\/CSA <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth possible. Using Webb\u2019s <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/Webb_s_instruments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument<\/a>, astronomers have confirmed gas \u2013 specifically water vapour \u2013 around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time, proving that water from the primordial Solar System can be preserved as ice in that region. However, the successful detection of water comes with a new puzzle: unlike other comets, Comet 238P\/Read had no detectable carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/Webb_finds_water_and_a_new_mystery_in_rare_main-belt_comet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth&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-755650","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\/755650","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=755650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755650\/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=755650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}