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JWST Sees Frozen Water, Ammonia, Methane and Other Ices in a Protostellar Nebula


planet? Then you’ll need various and sundry ingredients such as carbon, hydrogen oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur. The James Webb Space Telescope has found the building blocks for these key ingredients in the colds depths of a distant protostellar nebula called the Chameleon I molecular cloud.

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