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Looks like there are scientists who may have been misunderstood when they discussed the creation of the Sun.
Headline to one article: Earth Has Water Older Than the Sun
Just one little problem with the interpretations I have read in this thread - the water is not only older than the Sun, it is also older than the Earth.
Headline to one article: Earth Has Water Older Than the Sun
Just one little problem with the interpretations I have read in this thread - the water is not only older than the Sun, it is also older than the Earth.
By reconstructing conditions in the disk of gas and dust in which the Solar System formed, scientists have concluded that the Earth and other planets must have inherited much of their water from the cloud of gas from which the Sun was born 4.6 billion years ago, instead of forming later. The authors say that such interstellar water would also be included in the formation of most other stellar systems, and perhaps of other Earth-like planets.
The dense interstellar clouds of gas and dust where stars form contain abundant water, in the form of ice. When a star first lights up, it heats up the cloud around it and floods it with radiation, vaporizing the ice and breaking up some of the water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen.