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The largest and most distant reservoir of water Yet


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Water really is everywhere. Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),

have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. Looking from a distance of

30 billion trillion miles away into a quasar—one of the brightest and most violent objects in the cosmos—the researchers have

found a mass of water vapor that's at least 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world's oceans combined, and 100,000 times

more massive than the sun. Because the quasar is so far away, its light has taken 12 billion years to reach Earth.

 

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/07/22/caltech.led.astronomers.discover.largest.and.most.distant.reservoir.water.yet

 

 

 

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