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The James Webb Space Telescope, and it's astounding that it's constantly exceeding its expectations. And just recently it revealed some properties of an interstellar object, 31 slash Atlas. And the telescope has shown that 31 slash Atlas has a record amount of CO2 to water H2O ratios for a comet that is critically unusual. And if under further examination this proves true, it will provide lots of useful information on how this object formed. The GWSP's first observations were made on a rocket 6 with a near infrared spacecraft. And that was used to unravel the object's properties by way of emitted light, the spectrum. The findings were reported August 25th and was posted on the European research repository Zenodo. And it hasn't been reviewed yet, still waiting for peer review on this. And as comets, as comets pass by the Sun range star, but we'll just use the Sun in this example, because this is this object that's coming through our solar system, the developer coma, which is a cloud of gas and dust, another debris that grows as it flies by. And the process is called outgas. And images from the James Webb Space Telescope show that this coma is primarily made of CO2, carbon dioxide, and high CO2 content. It might be related to radiation exposure or possibly the distance that CO2 flows around its photofluetary disk. And what works for planetary distance is that it forms a huge disk of gas and another debris around young stars, where kind of asteroids and comets form even stars themselves, start from this material.