{"id":146530,"date":"2025-04-24T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530//?p=146530"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:50:52","slug":"ucf-scientists-use-james-webb-space-telescope-to-better-understand-solar-systems-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530//ucf-scientists-use-james-webb-space-telescope-to-better-understand-solar-systems-origins/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530//","title":{"rendered":"麻豆原创 Scientists Use James Webb Space Telescope to Better Understand Solar System/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2019s Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"

麻豆原创 scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant icy objects in space beyond Neptune, offering a deeper understanding of our solar system/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2019s formation and growth./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/n

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2014 known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2014 and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/n

The findings, recently published in The Astronomical Journal Letters by the American Astronomical Society, reveal two distinct groups of TNOs with surface ice methanol presence: one with a depleted amount of surface methanol and a large reservoir beneath the surface, and another /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2014 furthest from the Sun /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2014 with an overall weaker methanol presence. The study suggests that cosmic irradiation over billions of years may have played a role in the first group/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2019s varying methanol distribution, while raising new questions about the second group/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2019s muted signatures./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/n

Reaching Back in Time and Space/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/n

TNOs are important to our understanding of our solar system/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2019s origins because they are incredibly well-preserved remnants of the protoplanetary disk /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2014 or disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star such as the Sun /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/u2014 and can give scientists a thorough glimpse into the past./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146530/n