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Cheers! NASA’s Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds [1]

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Date: 2024-03

This image at a wavelength of 15 microns was taken by MIRI (the Mid-Infrared Instrument) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, of a region near the protostar known as IRAS 23385. IRAS 23385 and IRAS 2A (not visible in this image) were targets for a recent research effort by an international team of astronomers that used Webb to discover that the key ingredients for making potentially habitable worlds are present in early-stage protostars, where planets have not yet formed.

NASA, ESA, CSA, W. Rocha (Leiden University)

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