Well, not quite. But the JWST has observed a cold, dark molecular cloud...essentially ice...630 light years away that contains things like ammonia, methane, carbonyl sulfide.
These are life precursors, in cold storage. Now imagine that a solar system flies through this cloud. A whole bunch of these molecules land on a planet and "wake up."
Or perhaps the cloud itself heats up and stars start to form.
The chances are that the molecules that make us up originally came from out there.
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