James Webb at a steady pace making history
Hello friends, long time no see been away a bit but here I come back. I have been reviewing a lot of news on the internet on the side of astrophysics and the mystery of the universe but the one that always amazes me is James Webb with his wonderful photos and his new discoveries. Here I will show you what surprised me the most.
The first of the surprises that I saw was the discovery of a planet, so to speak, many scientists call it a failed star or a brown dwarf. You wonder why they call it a failed star? You call it that because it has not accumulated enough mass for hydrogen fusion in its core, so it remains halfway between a planet like Jupiter and a red dwarf star.
When James Webb observed the clouds of this planet, he verified that they were made of sand. The planet is called VHS 1256 1257b, about 72 light years from our planet. And it is 18 times bigger than Jupiter, the planet is relatively young according to the data from James Webb and this discovery shines with a reddish color with a silicate cloud, so to speak, a cloud of any type of sand like the one on the beach, let's see these James Webb indicated to me that it had the potential to observe planets and their spectrum, which was fundamental to see the atmosphere.
Scientists are sure that James Webb will be able to analyze a planet as small as Earth in search of extraterrestrial life as a second earth to be inhabited in the future.
For this reason now the james webb has his lens pointed at trappist 1 in search of that extraterrestrial life. But James is like a little boy who doesn't sit still and I kept looking at planetary systems and surprises appeared.
One of the surprises is a planetary system called AU MICROSCOPIUM that is located about 32 light years away and consists of a star and two planets, according to data released by James Webb near that star there is a disk of asteroids where it collides constantly.
As shown by James Webb that a planet is trapped in this asteroid system colliding with the asteroids, below I leave you more detail of the information if you want to read more about this discovery.
I think that James Webb is going to surprise the scientific community a lot and I think that our theory of our origin is going to have many changes over the years.
Since many theories are contradicting each other as James Webb discovers more of the mystery of the universe.
Here I leave the source and other interesting news for you to investigate further.
. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-webb-image-reveals-dusty-disk.html
. https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-trappist-planets