Webb Telescope Spots , Frozen Water and Molecules, in Distant Molecular Cloud .br Gizmodo reports that NASA's Webb telescope has br detected water ice and frozen complex molecules br about 630 light-years from Earth in a molecular cloud.br According to the team, br the freezing observations are thebr deepest, coldest yet seen in such a cloud.br A molecular cloud is a huge, dusty region of space that br typically serve as stellar nurseries as they containbr all of the ingredients necessary for stars to form. .br These clouds are also home to organic molecules. .br In 2022, scientists analyzing a molecular cloud at the center of our galaxy found evidence of the building blocks br of RNA, a molecule shared by all living cells.br The most recent frozen molecular br cloud contained water, methane, ammonia br and complex molecules such as methanol.br The team's findings were br published on January 23 in br the journal 'Nature Astronomy.'.br Gizmodo reports that the observation br of molecular clouds comes as br part of Webb's Ice Age project. .br Our results provide insights into the initial, br dark chemistry stage of the formation of ice br on the interstellar dust grains that will br grow into the centimeter-sized pebbles br from which planets form in disks, Melissa McClure, Astronomer at Leiden br Observatory in the Netherlands, via 'Gizmodo'.br We simply couldn’t have observed these br ices without Webb.