InterCat PI, Ewine van Dishoeck, is a part of an international team of astronomers that has observed the benzene molecule (C6H6) in a planet-forming disk around a young star.

Ewine has been involved in building the James Webb Space Telescope and the MIRI spectrometer from the beginning and states: "This is exactly the kind of science the MIRI spectrometer was designed for".

The observations were published in the Nature Astronomy paper.

See Astronomie.nl press release