"Webb Telescope Spots Massive Water Plume Erupting from Saturn's Moon"
TL;DR
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of the largest plume of water vapor erupting from geysers on Enceladus, Saturn's ice-covered ocean moon. The eruption measured at least 10,000 kilometers (over 6,000 miles) out into space, around 20 times the size of Enceladus itself. The plumes supply material to Saturn's icy rings, and the team detected something that could be cyanide compounds on the surface of Enceladus. The research has been accepted into Nature Astronomy, and a preprint is available via the NASA website.
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