{"id":220128,"date":"2025-05-20T02:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=40b64f32ebe9d1aca3182ee9bf8c7b01"},"modified":"2025-05-20T02:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:23:32","slug":"webb-finds-icy-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=220128","title":{"rendered":"Webb Finds Icy Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This artist’s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars. By using detailed data known as\u00a0spectra<\/a>\u00a0from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>, researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice \u2014 definitive evidence of what astronomers expected. Water ice is a vital ingredient in disks around young stars \u2014 it heavily influences the formation of giant planets and may also be delivered by small bodies like comets and asteroids to fully formed rocky planets.<\/p>\n

Read more about what this discovery means.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This artist\u2019s concept illustration, released on May 14, 2025, shows a Sun-like star encircled by a disk of dusty debris containing crystalline water ice. Astronomers long expected that frozen water was scattered in systems around stars. By using detailed data known as\u00a0spectra\u00a0from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220654,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220128\/revisions\/220654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}