JWST discovers large variety of carbon-rich gases that serve as ingredients for future planets around very low-mass star - Phys.org

Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas Henning from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, aims to establish a representative disk sample. By explori…