EVANSTON, Illinois, June 19 (TNSjou) -- Northwestern University posted the following news release:

* * *

Famous 'Pink Planet' harbors a salty surprise

James Webb Space Telescope finds salt clouds surround one of the coldest objects ever studied

* Found in 2013, Pink Planet was too faint to study with ground-based telescopes

* Scientists used JWST and advanced processing methods to obtain its spectrum for the first time