{"id":3923290,"date":"2025-12-23T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-spots-the-smoke-from-crashing-exocomets-around-a-nearby-star\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:04:28","slug":"webb-spots-the-smoke-from-crashing-exocomets-around-a-nearby-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-spots-the-smoke-from-crashing-exocomets-around-a-nearby-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb spots the &#8216;smoke&#8217; from crashing exocomets around a nearby star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on arXiv from Cicero Lu at the Gemini Observatory and his co-authors. This time, humanity&#8217;s most advanced space telescope found UV-fluorescent carbon monoxide in a protoplanetary debris disk for the first time ever. It also discovered some features of that disk that have considerable implications for planetary formation theory.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-12-webb-exocomets-nearby-star.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on arXiv from Cicero Lu at the Gemini Observatory and his co-authors. This time, humanity&#8217;s most advanced space telescope found UV-fluorescent carbon monoxide in a protoplanetary debris disk for the first time ever. It also discovered some [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}