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Originally posted by promomag
There is no science to explain how a molten hot mass can contain water.
Using an infrared instrument on the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, researchers were able to peer through the cloud and detect telltale light signatures of hydrogen and oxygen atoms—the building blocks of water—moving on and around the star.
After tracing the paths of these atoms, the team concluded that water forms on the star, where temperatures are a few thousand degrees Celsius. But once the droplets enter the outward-spewing jets of gas, 180,000-degree-Fahrenheit (100,000-degree-Celsius) temperatures blast the water back into gaseous form.
Once the hot gases hit the much cooler surrounding material—at about 5,000 times the distance from the sun to Earth—they decelerate, creating a shock front where the gases cool down rapidly, condense, and reform as water, Kristensen said.
Originally posted by promomag
There is no science to explain how a molten hot mass can contain water.
Scientists have said for quite sometime that water is the building block for life, which is why they have spent billions searching for it on Mars and in other areas of our solar system.
Originally posted by promomag
Okay, but the question still remains, you can either say ok, or question. Make your choice.
Originally posted by promomag
reply to post by SnedsDawg
While I appreciate guess work it will take an insatiable drive to find the answers. If you don't care to know where the oxygen originated or why it's the core component of this article then perhaps it's not your path or interest to peruse such trivial things.