🚨JWST HAS DETECTED "SEMI HEAVY WATER" ON AN ALIEN WORLD The James Webb Space Telescope has found evidence of HDO, sometimes called semi heavy water, in the atmosphere of WASP-39b, a scorching gas giant around 700 light years away. HDO is water in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the heavier isotope deuterium. By measuring its abundance, scientists can now begin reconstructing where a planet formed, what material it accumulated and how its atmosphere changed over time. The inferre...

It's been 30 days since 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Jupiter. One paper has appeared on arXiv since then. One. From a team using a 10-inch telescope. Nothing from Hubble. Nothing from JWST. Nothing from Juno. Nothing from ESA. Nothing from any major observatory on Earth. No new papers in Icarus. No new papers in MNRAS. No new papers in ApJL. No new papers in A&A. The community that produced dozens of papers per month for 9 straight months hasn't published a single major result from t...