James Webb Space Telescope detects new carbon compound in space for the first time

Scientists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time. 

The carbon compound is known as methyl cation, or CH3+.

It is important because it aids the formation of more complex carbon-based molecules. 

Carbon compounds form the foundations of all known life. 

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The findings were published in the journal Nature.

Methyl cation was detected in a young star system known as d203-506, which is located about 1,350 light-years away in the Orion Nebula.

The telescope's detection of key emission lines from the carbon compound determined the discovery.

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