A thousand oceans of water surrounds a nearby star

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Oct 24, 2011 4:00 PMNov 20, 2019 5:32 AM

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There's cold water vapor orbiting the star TW Hydrae... and a lot of it. Enough to fill the Earth's oceans thousands of times over!

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