James Webb Telescope hunts life's icy chemical origins

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This newly released picture shows a segment of the Chameleon I molecular cloud, some 630 light years away from the Earth.

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In this picture, temperature is below to about -260C, that Webb telescope is detecting types of ice grains not even previously observed.

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After a long time, such clouds will collapse to form stars and, planets. And the chemistry being spied by Webb will be incorporated.

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The orange "hourglass" feature is a protostar it is a star in the mode of formation, pulling material from the large cloud on to itself.

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Orange stars underneath are bright enough that they generate the distinctive six spikes that have now become friendly in Webb pictures and are artefacts of the telescope's segmented mirror design.

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But to detect the ices, Webb is ignoring all of these stars to the side and looking to stars behind the blue wispy Chameleon I.

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