Chen Xie, Christine Chen et al., colleagues of our EPSIG group at STScI/JHU just published water ice detections with #HighContrast Near-Infrared (IFU) Spectroscopy with #jwstnirspec

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The JWST Reveals New Things About How Planetary Systems Form

Every second in the Universe, more than 3,000 new stars form as clouds of dust and gas undergo gravitational collapse. Afterward, the remaining dust and gas settle into a swirling disk that feeds the star’s growth and eventually accretes to form planets – otherwise known as a protoplanetary disk. While this model, known as the … Continue reading "The JWST Reveals New Things About How Planetary Systems Form"

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Webb Finds the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen (So Far)

There are some things that never cease to amaze me and the discovery of distant objects is one of them. The James Webb Space Telescope has just found the most distant galaxy ever observed! It has the catchy title JADES-GS-z14-0 and it has a redshift of 14.32. This means its light left when the Universe … Continue reading "Webb Finds the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen (So Far)"

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