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James Webb Discovers Coldest Interstellar Ice Ever Seen

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NASA's new space telescope is not only extending astronomers' views deeper into the universe, but it also reaches colder temperatures than scientists have ever seen before.

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The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space observatory, has scanned deep into a dense molecular cloud to find a rich variety of interstellar water -- including many molecules vital for life.

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These ices were found at temperatures below minus 440 Fahrenheit.

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"We simply couldn't have observed these ices without Webb," Klaus Pontoppidan, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and an author of a new study describing the work, said in a statement.

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Webb researched a region that scientists call Chameleon.

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 It is located in the southern constellation Chameleon, about 500 light-years from Earth.

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