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Frozen Water in Young Star System HD 181327 — NASA Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections

Keith’s note: this just came out of my head as a stream of inter-related events. Some times I feel like Forrest Gump. Other times I am in Luke Skywalker mode.

Figure showing the contribution of different gases to the best-fit spectrum obtained from the free chemistry retrieval binned down to R∼200, for STIS+WFC3+NIRCam observations. — astro-ph.EP HD 209458 b is

Example of a bipolar outflow in IRAS 15557-5215 region. The top panels show the moment-0 map (left) and moment-1 map (right) of HC3N line. The outflow axis is represented by

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains,