A vast water reservoir is found in a forming planetary system

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The sky on 5 Apr 2026

The sky on 5 April 2026
Sunrise
06:31
Sunset
19:15
Twilight ends
20:41
Twilight begins
05:06


Waning Gibbous

85%

17 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:29 11:14 16:59
Venus 07:34 14:15 20:55
Moon 22:14 03:14 08:08
Mars 05:48 11:44 17:41
Jupiter 11:53 19:03 02:12
Saturn 06:16 12:20 18:23
All times shown in PDT.

Source

Hogerheijde, M.R., et al., Science, 334, pp. 338 (2011)

Transcript of a news story presented on the Naked Scientists, 23rd October 2011.

Image credit

Artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk; © L. Calcada, ESO

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