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This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk around a young and very low-mass star known as ISO-ChaI 147.

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English: This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk around a young and very low-mass star known as ISO-ChaI 147. The results reveal the richest hydrocarbon chemistry seen to date in a protoplanetary disk.

The science team explored the region around ISO-ChaI 147, a very low-mass star of 0.11 solar masses. They found that the gas in the planet-forming region of the star is rich in carbon. This could mean that the building blocks for planets may lack carbon because all of the carbon-containing chemicals have evaporated and been lost into the surrounding gas. As a result, any rocky planets that form might be carbon-poor.

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Date 6 June 2024 (upload date)
Source Protoplanetary Disk (Artist's Concept)
Author Illustration NASA-JPL
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Stars; Stellar Disks

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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag.

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