Astronomers Traced The Origins of Water to a Time Before The Sun
A star 1,300 light-years from Earth might have just revealed one of the Solar System's best-kept secrets.
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A star 1,300 light-years from Earth might have just revealed one of the Solar System's best-kept secrets.
The finding suggests Earth’s water predates the solar system.
'We can think of the path of water through the universe as a trail,' said lead author John Tobin, an astronomer at the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
By Mark Waghorn Earth’s oceans, rivers and lakes have been traced back to a stellar nursery 1,300 light years away. Astronomers describe it as the missing link in the origins of life as we know it. A view of bright blue water. Water was formed in a distant galaxy, but it’s older than the sun.
A new paper looking at a planet-forming disc more than 1000 light years away has found a ‘missing link’ in our understanding of the Solar System's water.