{"id":184951,"date":"2024-03-12T02:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T07:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/webb-space-telescope-shows-ultraviolet-winds-eroding-a-young-stars-protoplanetary-disk-in-orion-nebula"},"modified":"2024-03-12T02:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T07:23:05","slug":"webb-space-telescope-shows-ultraviolet-winds-eroding-a-young-stars-protoplanetary-disk-in-orion-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/webb-space-telescope-shows-ultraviolet-winds-eroding-a-young-stars-protoplanetary-disk-in-orion-nebula","title":{"rendered":"Webb Space Telescope Shows Ultraviolet \u201cWinds\u201d Eroding a Young Star\u2019s Protoplanetary Disk in Orion Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-space-telescope-shows-ultraviolet-winds-eroding-a-young-stars-protoplanetary-disk-in-orion-nebula2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the destructive power of ultraviolet \u201cwinds\u201d on the gas in protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars, shedding light on the intricate dynamics that limit the formation of gas giants in the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Ultraviolet \u201cwinds\u201d from nearby massive stars are stripping the gas from a young star\u2019s protoplanetary disk, causing it to rapidly lose mass, according to a new study. It reports the first directly observed evidence of far-ultraviolet (FUV)-driven photoevaporation of a protoplanetary disk. The findings, which use observations from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-james-webb-space-telescope\/\">James Web Space Telescope (JWST)<\/a>, provide new insights into the constraints of gas giant planet formation, including in our own Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>Insights into gas giant planet formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the destructive power of ultraviolet \u201cwinds\u201d on the gas in protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars, shedding light on the intricate dynamics that limit the formation of gas giants in the cosmos. Ultraviolet \u201cwinds\u201d from nearby massive stars are stripping the gas from a young star\u2019s protoplanetary disk, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}