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October 25, 2011
Detecting space vapor
U-M astronomy professor Ted Bergin is part of a team of astronomers that have detected a sprawling cloud of water vapor that could eventually deliver oceans to dry planets around a burgeoning solar system. The team discovered thousands of Earth-oceans’ worth of water within the planet-forming disk surrounding the star TW Hydrae, our closest solar-system-to-be.