{"id":221673,"date":"2025-09-10T15:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/unusual-co%e2%82%82-rich-disk-detected-around-young-star-challenges-planet-formation-models"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:10:57","slug":"unusual-co%e2%82%82-rich-disk-detected-around-young-star-challenges-planet-formation-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/unusual-co%e2%82%82-rich-disk-detected-around-young-star-challenges-planet-formation-models","title":{"rendered":"Unusual CO\u2082-rich disk detected around young star challenges planet formation models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unusual-coe28282-rich-disk-detected-around-young-star-challenges-planet-formation-models2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an unexpectedly high abundance of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) in regions where Earth-like planets may one day form.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), challenges long-standing assumptions about the chemistry of planetary birthplaces. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202555718\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike most nearby planet-forming disks, where <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+vapor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water vapor<\/a> dominates the inner regions, this disk is surprisingly rich in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+dioxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon dioxide<\/a>,\u201d says Jenny Frediani, Ph.D. student at the Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an unexpectedly high abundance of carbon dioxide (CO2) in regions where Earth-like planets may one day form. The discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), challenges long-standing assumptions about the chemistry of planetary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221673","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}