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The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a baffling chemical signature on both Pluto and Titan—two worlds light-years apart with wildly different environments. This mysterious absorption band, detected by two separate Webb instruments, doesn’t match any known compound in our databases. Scientists are confident it’s not a glitch, and while it might be a familiar molecule in an unknown form, it could also signal entirely new chemistry. With both icy worlds rich in organic compounds shaped by cosmic radiation, this discovery could rewrite our understanding of alien chemistry—and the universe’s hidden secrets.

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