"New Study Reveals Surprising Planetary Formation Potential in Nearby Galaxy"

An international team of space scientists has used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to study a part of the Small Magellanic Cloud and found evidence suggesting that planets could have formed during the "cosmic noon." The team focused on a part of the SMC called NGC 346, which is made up of hundreds of young, low-mass stars, and found evidence of rock-forming elements in the SMC, despite the lack of metals, suggesting that many planets may have been forming around them at that time.