Oceans of Water Detected in Planet-Forming Disk

A watery haze has been spotted in in a young star’s disk which extends almost 200 times the distance between Earth and the sun, according to new findings published in Science on Oct. 21.
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Oceans of Water Detected in Planet-Forming Disk
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/icydisk.jpg" alt="Artist's concept illustrating an icy planet-forming disk around a young star called TW Hydrae, located about 175 light-years away in the Hydra constellation. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)" title="Artist's concept illustrating an icy planet-forming disk around a young star called TW Hydrae, located about 175 light-years away in the Hydra constellation. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)" width="590" class="size-medium wp-image-1796011"/></a>
Artist's concept illustrating an icy planet-forming disk around a young star called TW Hydrae, located about 175 light-years away in the Hydra constellation. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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