The researchers believe the disks could stick around for a couple of reasons.
The disks take ten times longer to disappear.
This is so exciting.
NGC 346, a massive star cluster, with star locations circled in yellow.Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)
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Did Scientists Detect Life on Another Planet?
As for the Moon, not so much.
A star-forming region in the Carina Nebula, as seen by Webb. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI