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Nature Astronomy | JWST spots biggest plume yet spewing from a moon of Saturn

The huge watery cloud spurting from Enceladus could carry the ingredients for life farther into space than previously known. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted Saturn’s moon Enceladus spraying out a huge plume of water vapour, far bigger than any previously seen there. This enormous cloud might contain the chemical ingredients of life, escaping from beneath the moon’s icy surface. Read more at Nature Astronomy.