So, we observe a protostar, which is a baby star,
and we try to use JWST to see to the ice features
around this protostar.
So, what happens is that this ice contains the materials that
are going to shift directly down to the center of protostar.
That could be part of the building
block for planets or for the disk that
hosts the planet formation.
And so, this kind of process, we don't quite understand.
And now we're starting to get this look
because we can look at these different evolutionary stages.
We can look at before a star has formed,
while a star is forming, maybe a little bit later when it has
just a disk around the star.
And so, we can understand kind of how these molecules survive.
And so, it's really interesting to see, at this protostar
stage, because that's when we might be getting
these elements of life, and that's how we got water
on earth potentially.