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So, we observe a protostar,
which is a baby star,

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and we try to use JWST to
see to the ice features

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around this protostar.

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So, what happens is that this
ice contains the materials that

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are going to shift directly
down to the center of protostar.

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That could be part
of the building

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block for planets
or for the disk that

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hosts the planet formation.

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And so, this kind of process,
we don't quite understand.

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And now we're starting
to get this look

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because we can look at these
different evolutionary stages.

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We can look at before
a star has formed,

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while a star is forming, maybe
a little bit later when it has

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just a disk around the star.

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And so, we can understand kind
of how these molecules survive.

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And so, it's really interesting
to see, at this protostar

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stage, because that's
when we might be getting

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these elements of life,
and that's how we got water

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on earth potentially.

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