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Water Vapor Seen 'Raining' Onto Young Star System

Posted by Zonk on from the the-weather-outside-is-frightful dept.

tonganqn writes "Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope scientists have discovered huge amounts of water vapor in the young star system, called NGC 1333-IRAS 4B. From the article: 'The water vapor is pouring down from the system's natal cloud and smacking into a dusty disk where planets are thought to form. The observations provide the first direct look at how water, an essential ingredient for life as we know it, begins to make its way into planets, possibly even rocky ones like our own.'"

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  1. Behold for it is I by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is your God speaking. Stop watching me piss before I become an angry god......

  2. I love the picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I read this in a book somewhere... the sequence of events are eerily familiar, what was it called... Oh, yes thats right! - gasp - the BIBLE.

    also like the quote "We have captured a unique phase of a young star's evolution, ..."