A vast water reservoir is found in a forming planetary system

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The sky on 4 Jun 2026

The sky on 4 June 2026
Sunrise
05:38
Sunset
19:59
Twilight ends
21:42
Twilight begins
03:55


Waning Gibbous

74%

19 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:02 14:20 21:39
Venus 08:11 15:24 22:37
Moon 23:09 04:04 09:04
Mars 03:54 10:39 17:23
Jupiter 08:38 15:44 22:49
Saturn 02:38 08:48 14:58
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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