An artists rendition of a protostar. Credit: NASA/ Caltech
Posted on 06/22/2011 11:26:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
An artists rendition of a protostar. Credit: NASA/ Caltech
Space Ping!..............
“the process may be responsible for sprinkling the universe with water.”
Thanks Badge! Now I gotta go pee!
Well, you know how babies are... peeing at every opportunity.
I saw that happen on America’s Funniest Home Video. The parents just laughed and took it pretty well.
And the glory belongs to whom?? Man?? What great gifts we have been given. Just look around. It’s magnificent!!
Seriously - the stars just “happen” to spew out the most important molecule for life in the Universe.
That is well beyond freaky and extraordinary.
Squirting Star
“the process may be responsible for sprinkling the universe with water.”
Thanks Badge! Now I gotta go pee!
well, at least it is not spewing from Uranus!
stars getting “wee wee’d” up ping.
Partially burned hydrogen...sounds like a sort of purging process in a young star as it heats up and drives off everything but the hydrogen and helium. Makes sense as there was probably a bit of everything that came together as the star formed...
Uhhh, read it again:
about 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit, so the water is not liquid, but rather atoms of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, the building block of water. When it gets into space and the molecules interact with the dust surrounding the star, however, and the atoms probably combine to form water ice.
Spewing out H and O is different from spewing out H2O.
I did that too when I was a baby.
“shoots colossal jets of water “
I saw in the Starship Trooper movie, those are weapons from the bug planet.
It's awsome to contemplate how the Oxygen in question was forged late in the lifecycle of another previous and now dufunct star .
Fact is always much more interesting than fiction....
Here is a ping
Looks like the Schlitterbahn Waterpark no longer has the “Best Waterslide in the Universe.”
Makes you wonder what our solar system is hiding far on the edges at the poles of our sun.
If the sun ejects all this matter, there must be a cloud of debris that just float above and below our system.
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