Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope spots ‘plume’ coming out of one of Saturn’s moons

A vast plume has been seen coming out of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons.

The satellite is one of the best hopes for finding life outside our own planet. It has salty water and other conditions that leave scientists to believe that it could support alien life.

Now the James Webb Space Telescope has captured a vast plume being ejected out of the planet, it found that the water shooting out of the planet is more than 20 times the size of the moon itself.

“Right now, Webb provides a unique way to directly measure how water evolves and changes over time across Enceladus’ immense plume, and as we see here, we will even make new discoveries and learn more about the composition of the underlying ocean,” said co-author Stefanie Milam, from Nasa Goddard.

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[meldtoys]

Not water. No atmosphere. That would mean an age of only a few thousand years.

[Virtualmassslave]

newton is not involved in a re action?
what did I just see?
to scale?

[richardreese]

Is space a vacuum? If so that would not be possible?

[mikesimmonds]

With all the images out there you make this? Where are the images of the planet from James Webb oh there they are at the end with the logo over them for the last 5 seconds. We know how orbits work don’t need to see that twice. Very uninformative video if I’m honest. And it didn’t even play from your own website.