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SOME WATER ON EARTH MIGHT PREDATE THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Astronomers have discovered that some of Earth's water could predate the Sun.

Observing a planet-forming disk around the infant star V883 Orionis, John Tobin (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) and colleagues the chemical composition of its water vapour.

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