Carbon is pretty important for earth, and it’s unclear how we have so much of it. Dual star systems shooting out carbon at 1% the speed of light kind of explains it pretty well: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-watches-carbon-rich-dust-shells-form-expand-in-star-system/

@[email protected] A carbon dust shell is a layer of carbon-rich material expelled from a star in it’s later stages of life in which a star ejects these shells due to stellar instability since they are the lighter, outer elements of a star.

It’s cool because JWST could even resolve detail like that!! We can also learn more about the carbon chemistry of the system, binary dynamics, and the history of the system :D

The JWST website has some more information!

Carbon, like water, is a very cool element which doesn’t fit nicely into the known laws of physics. Like water it is also one of the most important elements for the development of life as we know it.