SWAS finds evidence of water vapor around aging star
NASA's Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS), a small radio observatory launched in 1998, has provided the first evidence that extra-solar planetary systems contain water, NASA announced. SWAS detected water vapor coming from comets near an aging star designated IRC+10216, researchers wrote...
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