NASA’s Webb telescope gets a never-before-seen look at how moons form on exoplanets

NASA’s Webb telescope gets a never-before-seen look at how moons form on exoplanets

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

NASA may have just found building site for moons

NASA believes it may have found the ‘building site’ for moons, located about 625 light years from Earth. The US space agency says its James Webb Space Telescope is currently studying the chemical and physical properties of what it thinks may be a moon-forming disk encircling a large, and young, exoplanet, named CT Cha b. (Exoplanets is the name for planets that exist outside our solar system). The carbon-rich disk is a possible construction yard…