![Overview of the d203-506 externally irradiated protoplanetary disk. Integrated intensity images from NIRCam F212N filter (a), Hubble Space Telescope [OI] (b), NIRSpec [FeII] (c), NIRSpec CH+ 1-0 P(7) at 3.95 µm (d), and MIRI MRS integrated from 7.16 to 7.20 µm assigned to CH+ 3 (e). Each panel is centered at α=5:35:20.318 and δ=-5:25:05.662 and are 2" × 2" wide. Contours of NIRCam vibrationally excited H2 (2.12 µm band) are represented in orange, and ALMA dust continuum emission at 344 GHz from the disk in white contours. (f,) Sketch of the d203-506 disk, jet, and wind. We note that the low mass star is not seen in the images because of the disk flaring. All JWST images are from the PDRs4All program, while the Hubble image is from (9). -- astro-ph.GA](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FormationoftheMethylCation.png?resize=1200%2C719&ssl=1)
Forty years ago it was proposed that gas phase organic chemistry in the interstellar medium was initiated by the methyl cation CH3+, but hitherto it has not been observed outside […]
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Webb Makes First Detection Of Crucial Carbon Molecule Methyl Cation (CH3+) In A Planet-forming Disc
An international team of scientists have used data collected by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to detect a molecule [1] known as the methyl cation (CH3+) for the first […]