Webb Telescope Spots , Frozen Water and Molecules, in Distant Molecular Cloud .<br />Gizmodo reports that NASA's Webb telescope has <br />detected water ice and frozen complex molecules <br />about 630 light-years from Earth in a molecular cloud.<br />According to the team, <br />the freezing observations are the<br />deepest, coldest yet seen in such a cloud.<br />A molecular cloud is a huge, dusty region of space that <br />typically serve as stellar nurseries as they contain<br />all of the ingredients necessary for stars to form. .<br />These clouds are also home to organic molecules. .<br />In 2022, scientists analyzing a molecular cloud at the center of our galaxy found evidence of the building blocks <br />of RNA, a molecule shared by all living cells.<br />The most recent frozen molecular <br />cloud contained water, methane, ammonia <br />and complex molecules such as methanol.<br />The team's findings were <br />published on January 23 in <br />the journal 'Nature Astronomy.'.<br />Gizmodo reports that the observation <br />of molecular clouds comes as <br />part of Webb's Ice Age project. .<br />Our results provide insights into the initial, <br />dark chemistry stage of the formation of ice <br />on the interstellar dust grains that will <br />grow into the centimeter-sized pebbles <br />from which planets form in disks, Melissa McClure, Astronomer at Leiden <br />Observatory in the Netherlands, via 'Gizmodo'.<br />We simply couldn’t have observed these <br />ices without Webb. Webb’s exquisite <br />sensitivity was necessary to detect <br />the starlight and therefore identify <br />the ices in the molecular cloud, Klaus Pontodippan, Webb project scientist <br />and a co-author of the research, via 'Gizmodo'
