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Seven hundred and fifty light-years from Earth, a young, sunlike star has been found with jets that blast epic quantities of water into interstellar space, shooting out droplets that move faster than a speeding bullet.
The discovery suggests that protostars may be seeding the universe with water. These stellar embryos shoot jets of material from their north and south poles as their growth is fed by infalling dust that circles the bodies in vast disks.
"If we picture these jets as giant hoses and the water droplets as bullets, the amount shooting out equals a hundred million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second," said Lars Kristensen, a postdoctoral astronomer at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
"We are talking about velocities reaching 200,000 kilometers [124,000 miles] per hour, which is about 80 times faster than bullets flying out of a machine gun," said Kristensen, lead author of the new study detailing the discovery, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Originally posted by foreshadower99
Holy beef!
That's some serious stuff!
Sooo much watrer into space where does it all go?
I wonder but we will never find where it does unless if we can travel infinite space.
Originally posted by xacto
reply to post by OptimusSubprime
If this is true this is a slap in the face for us to wake up. Im sure at least one of the two is going to happen lol.edit on 15-6-2011 by xacto because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by rcanem
It would explain why water is so common in our solar system. Earth, moon, comets etc. Very exciting indeed.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by rcanem
It would explain why water is so common in our solar system. Earth, moon, comets etc. Very exciting indeed.
I was going to say this could explain where Comets come from. Being mostly water/ice. Previous to this I envisioned an Earth like planet exploding and ejecting a large amount of water out into space where it froze and set off out into to space.
This could explain their origins.
S & F
The discovery suggests that protostars may be seeding the universe with water.
Originally posted by Revolution9
reply to post by OptimusSubprime
Amazing! Yet how does it maintain its molecular constitution as H2O in the vacuum of space? Would it not become ice as it cools away from the star's heat?
Space amazes me with all these complexities.
The only problem with this is that almost no water in any form has been found on any comet that has been sampled to date. Comets being balls of ice appears to be pure speculation, it goes against all physical evidence so far.
I was going to say this could explain where Comets come from. Being mostly water/ice.