New research suggests that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faint amounts of methane gas, which is commonly produced human and animal flatulence. | Credit: Getty ImagesScientists armed with the immense observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected faint traces of fluorescent flatulence leaking out from the dwarf planet Makemake, which lurks in the outer reaches of the solar system . Data collected by JWST clearly shows the presence of methane gas around the surface of Makemake. The dwarf planet Ceres, which is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter , also has a wispy atmosphere made up of water vapor. This potential process, known as outgassing, could be happening at various spots across the dwarf planet, with methane shooting outward at up to "a few hundred kilograms per second," Protopapa said.