Astronomers, through the James Webb Telescope (JWST), monitored a strange planetary tablet around a young star known as Xue 10, about 8,000 light years from Earth. Amazing in this disk is that the areas where land -like planets contain a large amount of carbon dioxide, while the water is almost non -existent.
Playing tablets usually contain water, as it plays an essential role in the formation of rocky planets and oceans. But this monitoring reveals that the process of forming planets may be more complicated than scientists previously believed.
The study, published in Astronomy & ASTROOPHYSICS, shows that there are two possibilities that explain the scarcity of water in this disk: The first is the disc of strong outlet radiation issued by the star or from nearby stars, which leads to the evaporation of water before it collects to form the planets. The second is that dust granules in the disk contains carbon dioxide more than water due to local conditions around the young star.
Scientists have used accurate tools such as Neuropixels to follow the disk, which allowed them to monitor the distribution of various gases inside the planetary disk. These notes indicate that some planets may be formed in poor water environments and rich in other gases, such as CO₂, which is reshaping our understanding of how the Earth -like planets emerge.
These results indicate that the formation of planets is not a written and simple process as it was previously believed. Rather, it depends on multiple factors such as star radiation, the chemical composition of dust, and the temperature in the disk. Scientists hope that future notes using advanced ground telescopes such as the Grand European Observatory (ET) will help the fine details of how the planets form, and perhaps understand how our solar system has been billions of years ago.
