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Webb’s Picture of the Month Features Two Planet-Forming Disks and a Possible Planet
The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month shows Tau 042021 (left) and Oph 163131 (right), two protoplanetary disks located about 450 and 480 light-years from Earth in the constellations Taurus and Ophiuchus (respectively). These disks are composed of material left over from the formation of new stars, which coalesce into planetesimals that
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