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Astronomers have found water vapor in the disk around a young star right where planets are likely to form. In this image, the new observations from the ESO partner Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) show the water vapor in shades of blue. Near the center of the disc, where the young star lives, the environment is hotter and the gas is brighter. The red rings are previous ALMA observations showing the distribution of dust around the star.Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al.

Astronomers discover a new connection between water and the formation of planets

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An amount of water at least three times greater than the water in all the Earth's oceans was discovered in the inner disk of the young Sun-like star HL Tauri, 450 light-years away from Earth, in the Taurus group
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
Simulation of the surface of the sky as it might be seen from the surface of the planet TRAPPIST-1f, one of the three new planets found in the host region of the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The seven planets in his planetary system are so close together that they can be clearly seen from the surface of one of them. Imaging: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

A system of seven Earth-like planets was discovered, three of them in the zone suitable for the existence of liquid water

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In this photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope, you see dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" - compressed pockets in larger molecular clouds. Such islands of matter in the early universe may have contained water vapor as we see in our galaxy today, although they contained much less oxygen. Photo: Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team

Surprising discovery: the ancient gas clouds, from which the stars and galaxies in the universe were formed, contained a significant amount of water

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Gravity measurements by the Cassini spacecraft and NASA's Deep Space Network indicate that Saturn's moon Enceladus, which has jets from its south pole, also contains a large internal sea beneath the ice sheet. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Further confirmation of the existence of a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of the Saturnian moon Enceladus

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Discovering water on a hook. Eurof European Space Agency

The Herschel Space Telescope discovered water vapor in an asteroid

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Saturn's moon Enceladus. Photo: Cassini spacecraft

The "elements of life" exist on Saturn's moon, Enceladus

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The largest asteroid may contain more water than Earth

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