00:03looking for other planets is hard and looking for those with water is even harder however in a
00:08scientific first astronomers have discovered water not on a planet but rather where a planet is about
00:14to form this image was captured of a star similar to our sun called hl tory it is currently undergoing
00:20the process of system formation as we speak only 450 light years away from our own solar system
00:26and surrounding it astronomers say they have found the equivalent of entire oceans of h2o coalescing
00:32around the star even the researchers themselves were extremely surprised to find it saying about
00:37it quote i had never imagined that we could capture an image of oceans of water vapor in the same
00:42region
00:42where a planet is likely forming hl tory is extremely young only around a million years old meaning we're
00:48getting a front row seat to what happens in the relative moments after a star is formed the water
00:52vapor in the star's planet forming disk region resides only 17 astronomical units away that's
00:58around three astronomical units closer than uranus is to the sun with the study's authors saying this
01:03reveals that the presence of water can influence the development in planetary systems just like we
01:09believe happened in our own system 4.5 billion years ago
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