The ALMA telescope captured images of water vapor around a star.
A group of astronomers, for the first time, captured images of water in the form of gas around the star HL Tauri using the millimeter array called ALMA.
According to observations by this group of astronomers, published on Friday in the journal Nature Astronomy, this disk contains at least three times the amount of water present in all Earth’s oceans.
This discovery was made in the planet-forming disk around the young star HL Tauri, which is about 450 light-years away from Earth.