Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted water around a rare comet, calling it a 'long-sought scientific breakthrough.'
Astronomers found water vapor on Comet Read , a comet located in the main asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.
Previously, comets were understood to originate from the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, which both sit beyond Neptune's orbit, and the distance away from the Sun would help preserve ice on the comets, NASA said. However, after much speculation, scientists using the Webb telescope were able to confirm water ice could be preserved in the warmer asteroid belt in the orbit of Jupiter.
"Being in the asteroid belt for a long time could do it – carbon dioxide vaporizes more easily than water ice, and could percolate out over billions of years," astronomer and lead author of the study Michael Kelley said.
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