Recipe for water: just add starlight
1 Sep 2010, 16:58 UTC
ESA / SPIRE / PACS / MESS Consortia
Herschel has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is a key ingredient for making water in the atmosphere of some stars. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour.
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