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James Webb Unmasks the Carbon-Rich Secrets of Protoplanetary Disks


James Webb Space Telescope discovers a large variety of carbon-rich gases that serve as ingredients for future planets around a very low-mass star. MINDS research using JWST's MIRI instrument has uncovered carbon-rich and oxygen-poor chemical environments in disks around very low-mass stars, indi

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