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Webb observes young star systems with Moon-forming style impacts

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have characterised violent debris disks matching conditions when Earth's Moon formed.

Luisa Marconi
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has examined a class of young stellar systems showing violent upheavals similar to the impact that created Earth's Moon.[1]