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Webb telescope discovery may help understand how water got on Earth

By Jack Birle
Published July 25, 2023 8:37pm ET
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Webb telescope discovery may help understand how water got on Earth
An artist’s concept portrays the star PDS 70 and its inner protoplanetary disk. | (NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted [STScI])


Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected water vapor within 100 million miles of a star where rocky planets are forming.

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