{"id":184198,"date":"2024-03-02T05:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-baby-stars-planet-forming-disk-has-3-times-more-water-than-all-of-earths-oceans"},"modified":"2024-03-02T05:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:26:14","slug":"a-baby-stars-planet-forming-disk-has-3-times-more-water-than-all-of-earths-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-baby-stars-planet-forming-disk-has-3-times-more-water-than-all-of-earths-oceans","title":{"rendered":"A baby star\u2019s planet-forming disk has 3 times more water than all of Earth\u2019s oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-baby-stars-planet-forming-disk-has-3-times-more-water-than-all-of-earths-oceans3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team behind the breakthrough used the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/19098-alma-telescope-array-photos.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/19098-alma-telescope-array-photos.html\">Atacama Large Millimeter\/ submillimeter Array (ALMA)<\/a> to zoom in on water vapor locked up in gas and dust within a protoplanetary disk surrounding the sun-like star HL Tauri, located 450 light-years away from Earth in the constellation <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17101-taurus-constellation.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17101-taurus-constellation.html\">Taurus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had never imagined that we could capture an image of oceans of water vapor in the same region where a planet is likely forming,\u201d Stefano Facchini<sub> <\/sub>research leader and an astronomer at the University of Milan, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2404\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2404\/?lang\">said in a statement.<\/a> \u201cOur results show how the presence of water may influence the development of a planetary system, just like it did some 4.5 billion years ago in our own solar system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind the breakthrough used the Atacama Large Millimeter\/ submillimeter Array (ALMA) to zoom in on water vapor locked up in gas and dust within a protoplanetary disk surrounding the sun-like star HL Tauri, located 450 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Taurus. \u201cI had never imagined that we could capture an image [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}