Enceladus was caught in the act by the James Webb Space Telescope.

One of Saturn's 80 plus moons, Enceladus, has squirted water vapor jets thousands of kilometers into space out of its icy surface, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced. 

It’s not the first time Enceladus gets caught with water outbursts, but this time such a gigantic jet was captured and measured with the space telescope.

The jet measured more than 9,600 kilometers, which is the distance between Los Angeles (US) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) or 20 times the size of the moon itself.

The ocean-filled moon ejected water at a rate of 300 liters per second, the scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland said.

The findings of this documented phenomenon, which were published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, provide arguments to astronomers who think that Enceladus is gifted with the necessary components upon which life is built. 

Back in 2021, thanks to the Cassini research spacecraft – the first to orbit Saturn and gather data about its moons, NASA presumed the Enceladus might host simple microorganisms.