{"id":214118,"date":"2025-05-16T05:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system"},"modified":"2025-05-16T05:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:13:10","slug":"another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system","title":{"rendered":"Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know water in its solid state \u2014 ice \u2014 exists on moons orbiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Telescopes have also spotted frozen water on dwarf planets, comets, and other bits of rock that \u201chang out\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/glossary.html#h3-CK-6d450928-5876-4ba9-9920-c3d41c0c0531\">Kuiper Belt<\/a> at the edge of our solar system. But for decades, water ice was not confirmed to exist around other stars.<\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope has unequivocally changed that: Data from its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) confirmed the presence of water ice in a dusty debris disk that surrounds a star known as HD 181327.<\/p>\n<p>Water ice heavily influences the formation of giant planets and may also be delivered by comets to fully formed rocky planets. Now that researchers have detected water ice with Webb, they have opened the door to studying how these processes play out in new ways \u2014 in many other planetary systems \u2014 for all researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know water in its solid state \u2014 ice \u2014 exists on moons orbiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Telescopes have also spotted frozen water on dwarf planets, comets, and other bits of rock that \u201chang out\u201d in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system. But for decades, water ice was not [\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-214118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214118","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=214118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}