00:00How do you build a moon?
00:01Well, for the first time ever, we might actually know the recipe.
00:05NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just captured the most detailed look
00:09yet at a moon-forming disk around a planet 625 light-years away.
00:13This mysterious world is called C.T. Chabi, 17 times the mass of Jupiter,
00:18and it's either a massive planet or a baby brown dwarf.
00:22Orbiting a very young star, this giant is wrapped in a swirling disk of gas and dust.
00:27And that's where it gets exciting.
00:29Webb's infrared eyes have spotted a cocktail of chemicals.
00:32Acetylene, benzene, carbon dioxide, ethane, hydrogen cyanide,
00:38basically everything you'd need to cook up some moons.
00:41What's wild is this is the first time we've ever measured the actual ingredients in a moon-making disk.
00:46Scientists think C.T. Chabi's moons are still forming,
00:49right now in a cosmic kitchen 41 billion miles from its star.
00:54It's far enough from the glare that we can watch this process live,
00:57for the first time in human history.
01:00And guess what? This might just be the first of many.
01:03Because if moons outnumber planets, as we suspect,
01:06this tiny window could open the floodgates to understanding how our own moons came to be.
01:10Stay tuned. The universe is just getting started.
01:13The universe is just getting started.
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