Water in space

1996-05-01T00:00:00

The European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory has recorded a space first with the detection of more than 20 water-vapour emission lines in the far infra-red spectrum around the pulsating cool red-giant star, W Hydrae, 300 light years away in the constellation of Hydra Transbrazil.

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