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Oct 12

Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth

Source: ESA Herschel


Taurus molecular cloud.
Image credits: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE

ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like star.(read more)

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