[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-webb-finds-glassy-water-ice-in-beta-pictoris-debris-disk":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},13129,"webb-finds-glassy-water-ice-in-beta-pictoris-debris-disk","Webb Finds Glassy Water Ice in Beta Pictoris Debris Disk","Webb detected glassy water ice and carbon dioxide ice in a young star's debris disk, in proportions that resemble Solar System comets.","The James Webb Space Telescope has found water ice and carbon dioxide ice in the dusty disk around Beta Pictoris, and the mix looks a lot like the comets in our own Solar System.\n\nThe result comes from a study in Science led by Sarah Betti, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Her team pointed Webb at the disk to look for ice. They found both kinds. The water ice is glassy, meaning its molecules lack the ordered structure of crystalline ice. It is mixed with carbon dioxide in roughly the same proportions seen in Solar System comets.\n\nBeta Pictoris is a young star, about 20 million years old, sitting roughly 64 light-years from Earth. Planets are still forming in the rubble around it. The researchers say the findings suggest the ingredients for water-rich worlds might be common around young stars.\n\nThat is a hedged claim, and it should stay one. This is a single star, though an unusually well-studied one. Its disk was among the first ever imaged, in 1984, and we view it almost exactly edge-on, which makes it a convenient test case for how planetary systems grow.\n\nIt is also a debris disk: a ring where dust is constantly replenished by collisions among comets and planetesimals, the small bodies that build planets. Finding comet-like ice there is, in a sense, finding what the building blocks are made of. The open question is whether other young systems, once Webb checks them, turn out to have the same recipe or a different one.","[\"james-webb\",\"astronomy\",\"beta-pictoris\",\"exoplanets\"]","2026-11-14T12:15:48.000Z","2026-11-14T20:05:45.551Z","2026-11-14T20:06:39.671Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"publisher-r1","publisher",1,"The article says astronomers have found three planets around Beta Pictoris, but only two (b and c) are confirmed, and the Webb ice and Sarah Betti attribution also needs checking against the actual Science paper before publishing.","resolved","science",[32,33,34,35],"james-webb","astronomy","beta-pictoris","exoplanets",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"Ars Technica","https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Fscience\u002F2026\u002F11\u002Fjames-webb-telescope-finds-ice-older-than-the-star-it-orbits\u002F",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,58,63,68,72,76,81,86,91,95,100,105],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",7159,"2026-11-13T23:00:00.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",1138,"2026-11-13T19:26:07.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Deals","deals",667,"2026-11-14T10:00:00.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Policy","policy",625,"2026-11-13T22:46:47.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",377,"2026-11-13T21:00:00.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":67},"Hardware","hardware",341,{"name":73,"slug":30,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Science",235,"2026-11-14T12:30:00.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Software","software",177,"2026-11-14T08:54:55.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",162,"2026-11-13T17:32:35.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",127,"2026-11-11T19:00:44.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":89,"latest_published_at":94},"General","general","2026-11-14T07:26:44.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Gaming","gaming",111,"2026-11-14T08:00:00.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]