The James Webb telescope captured the first clear images of moons being born
The James Webb Space Telescope has provided humanity's first direct look at a moon-forming disk of dust and gas swirling around a distant, massive planet outside our solar system.
A breathtaking image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a circumplanetary disk surrounding the gas giant PDS 70c, located nearly 400 light-years away. This dense ring of debris contains enough material to create three moons the size of our own.
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