Zooming to Water in Terrestrial Planet-forming Zone of Star PDS 70's Disk

Zooming to Water in Terrestrial Planet-forming Zone of Star PDS 70's Disk

This animation explains the detection of water in the zone near the star PDS 70, where rocky planets usually form. First we see the starry sky and approach the position of PDS 70. Then the video shows two different observations of the planet-forming disk with the positions of the two gas giant planets. Finally, we see a section of the spectrum with the water signatures determined by the MIRI instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope.

The animation is part of a Max Planck Institute for Astronomy press release:

https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2023-11-pds70-water

The results were published in an article in the journal Nature:

G. Perotti et al, "Water detection in the terrestrial planet-forming zone of the PDS 70 disk", Nature (2023).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06317-9

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)/Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) / G. Perotti et al. (The MINDS collaboration)

Duration: 42 seconds

Release Date: July 24, 2023

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