Why is it in News?
→ Astronomers studied PAHs using archival data from JWST’s MIRI instrument.
→ Study focused on the circumstellar disk of T Chamaeleontis.
Important Points
- Young, sun-like star in Chamaeleon constellation.
- Located about 350 light-years from Earth.
- Lies in the southern celestial hemisphere.
- Approximately 70% size of the Sun.
- Surface temperature around 5111 K.
- Surrounded by a planet-forming circumstellar disk.
- Disk has a wide gap likely carved by a protoplanet.
- Observations done using JWST Mid Infrared Instrument.
- System is key for studying early planet formation.