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The JWST Spies The Raw Materials For Exomoons


The JWST observed the moon-forming disk around a Jupiter-mass planet about 625 light years away. The telescope gave astronomers a detailed view of the circumplanetary disk and found that it's rich in carbon. Its researchers first opportunity to characterize these disks in detail.

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