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An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. These geysers are very similar to geysers and emit a mixture of water vapor, ice grains, salts, methane and other organic molecules. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Webb Space Telescope discovers a 10,000 km long plume of water erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus

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This is the first time that such an emission of water has been seen from such a great distance, and in addition, the web allows researchers a direct view, for the first time, of how this emission feeds the water supply of the entire system of Saturn and its rings
Birth Pool: Life on Earth may have originated in places similar to the Great Prism Spring in Yellowstone Park, USA. Photo: Jim Peaco, National Park Service.

Life on Earth originated in volcanic hot springs, not the sea, new evidence suggests

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A laboratory model of a periodically erupting geyser with a bubble trap. Credit: Esther Edelstein and colleagues, Journal Of Volcanology And Geothermal Research, Volume 285, September 15, 2014 (geyser cycle model).

The geysers erupting like clockwork / Sara Levin

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