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Received — 31 May 2026 ⏭ Scientific American News

JWST Is Tracking Down the Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water

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By: Shannon Hall
23 February 2024 at 17:00

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are exposing the pathways that water takes to reach terrestrial planets

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An image of a protoplanetary disk captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Similar observations of such planetary nurseries by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are revealing new details about how water finds its way into rocky worlds.
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