00:03This stuff is pretty important to humans, and so is the life-giving heat of our Sun.
00:08But now, according to experts with the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
00:12water may have come into existence before our central star.
00:15The researchers say that just 1,300 light-years away, there's a star named V883 Orionis,
00:20which is in the stages of developing its own planets as we speak.
00:23But among the dust and gas and other debris which will eventually coalesce into planets,
00:27astronomers have also identified a significant amount of water vapor.
00:31Which means if we extrapolate this data to our own solar system,
00:34it means that water was here and floating around when the Sun first ignited and planets began to form around
00:39it.
00:39Experts say that water actually plays an important role in planet formation,
00:43sticking to bits of dust as it begins to collect into a planet, making it stickier and thus collect faster.
00:48We know that at least some of the water on Earth came from comets,
00:51as we can detect certain isotopes which indicate such a delivery method.
00:54But there's just too much water on our little blue planet for all of the H2O to get here by
00:59that method,
00:59with the researchers writing, quote,
01:01This is confirmation of the idea that the water in planetary systems formed billions of years ago,
01:06before the Sun in interstellar space,
01:08and has been inherited by both comets and Earth relatively unchanged.
01:12Guangdong inside,
01:12it might have been endangered net.
01:15Whereabouts can I have ever been designated?
01:15Are painted vikum in et cetera?
01:17While thinking things are EinsDonald.
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