{"id":3925283,"date":"2026-04-03T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-eyes-a-pair-of-planet-forming-disks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:02:45","slug":"webb-eyes-a-pair-of-planet-forming-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-eyes-a-pair-of-planet-forming-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb eyes a pair of planet-forming disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This month&#8217;s NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month offers us a two-for-one on brand new stars\u2014with some potential planets thrown in as well. This visual highlights Webb&#8217;s views of the protoplanetary disks Tau 042021 (left) and Oph 163131 (right), otherwise known by the catalog numbers 2MASS J04202144+2813491 and 2MASS J16313124-2426281, respectively. Tau 042021 is situated around 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus, while Oph 163131 lies about 480 light-years away in Ophiuchus.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-webb-eyes-pair-planet-disks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month offers us a two-for-one on brand new stars\u2014with some potential planets thrown in as well. This visual highlights Webb&#8217;s views of the protoplanetary disks Tau 042021 (left) and Oph 163131 (right), otherwise known by the catalog numbers 2MASS J04202144+2813491 and 2MASS J16313124-2426281, respectively. Tau [&#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-3925283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925283","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=3925283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}