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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

New JWST official release: Webb finds icy complex organic molecules around protostar IRAS 2A in NGC 1333. esawebb.org/news/weic2409/ 🔭 🧪

An international team of scientists using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has identified a wealth of complex, carbon-containing (organic) molecules surrounding two protostars. This graphic shows the spectrum of one of the two protostars, IRAS 2A. It includes the fingerprints of acetaldehyde, ethanol, methylformate, and likely acetic acid, in the solid phase. These and other molecules detected there by Webb represent key ingredients for making potentially habitable worlds.