750 light years away, there is an interstellar fire hydrant. And it's open to full blast. From Popsci.com:
Researchers looking for signs of life elsewhere in the universe often start by looking for one key ingredient necessary to complex life as we know it: water. And just 750 light-years away, they've found quite a bit of it spewing from the poles of a young, sunlike star that is blasting jets of H2O into interstellar space at 124,000 miles per hour.Some astronomers are speculating that this is "something every protostar goes through" - which would suggest that water might be found throughout space. You can read more here.
[T]he water droplets are essentially bullets of water moving something like 80 times faster than the average round fired from a rifle. And there's a lot of them. The amount of water ejecting from the star is equal to the amount that flows through the Amazon every second, researchers say.
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