Baby star blasts jets of water into space

PhysOrg.com ^ | June 22, 2011 | By Joel N. Shurkin

[Red Badger]

An artists rendition of a protostar. Credit: NASA/ Caltech

[Red Badger]

Space Ping!..............

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“the process may be responsible for sprinkling the universe with water.”

Thanks Badge! Now I gotta go pee!

[theDentist]

Well, you know how babies are... peeing at every opportunity.

[ClearCase_guy]

I saw that happen on America’s Funniest Home Video. The parents just laughed and took it pretty well.

[P.O.E.]

[Sacajaweau]

And the glory belongs to whom?? Man?? What great gifts we have been given. Just look around. It’s magnificent!!

[Eldon Tyrell]

Seriously - the stars just “happen” to spew out the most important molecule for life in the Universe.

That is well beyond freaky and extraordinary.

[bigbob]

Squirting Star

[patriotsoul]

“the process may be responsible for sprinkling the universe with water.”

Thanks Badge! Now I gotta go pee!

well, at least it is not spewing from Uranus!

[rokkitapps]

stars getting “wee wee’d” up ping.

[Bean Counter]

Partially burned hydrogen...sounds like a sort of purging process in a young star as it heats up and drives off everything but the hydrogen and helium. Makes sense as there was probably a bit of everything that came together as the star formed...

[Izzy Dunne]

the stars just “happen” to spew out the most important molecule for life in the Universe.

Uhhh, read it again:

about 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit, so the water is not liquid, but rather atoms of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, the building block of water. When it gets into space and the molecules interact with the dust surrounding the star, however, and the atoms probably combine to form water ice.

Spewing out H and O is different from spewing out H2O.

[RichInOC]

I did that too when I was a baby.

[edcoil]

“shoots colossal jets of water “

I saw in the Starship Trooper movie, those are weapons from the bug planet.

[Calusa]

but rather atoms of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, the building block of water

It's awsome to contemplate how the Oxygen in question was forged late in the lifecycle of another previous and now dufunct star .

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Fact is always much more interesting than fiction....

[Bockscar]

Most Interesting

Here is a ping

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Looks like the Schlitterbahn Waterpark no longer has the “Best Waterslide in the Universe.”

[dila813]

Makes you wonder what our solar system is hiding far on the edges at the poles of our sun.

If the sun ejects all this matter, there must be a cloud of debris that just float above and below our system.

[JimRed]

...the atoms probably combine to form water ice.

Probably. That means that it's only a theory.

[Red Badger]

Oort Cloud..................

[Scythian]

Astronomers have found a nascent star 750 light years from earth that shoots colossal jets of water

Uh huh, righhhhhhhhhhhhhht .... Anyone that believes this kind of nonsense is an idiot.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Come, now.

[IWONDR]

“Besides the hydrogen and oxygen atoms, the jet streams are known to include carbon dioxide and silicon oxide molecules”

Interstellar carbon dioxide pollution! Calling Alf Bore: any money to be made here? Calling the EPA for tighter regulation of this non-anthropogenic pollutant. Heaven help us all.

[ZX12R]

Uh huh, righhhhhhhhhhhhhht .... Anyone that believes this kind of nonsense is an idiot.

The irony in your post has the density of a neutron star.

[TigersEye]

Oort Cloud..................

That's a little far out.

[Scythian]

If you want to believe those fairy tales have at it ... I for one don’t believe any of it, I don’t care if they said it was argon gas, they don’t have a clue about things 750 million light years away, not a clue.

[TigersEye]

Irony is ejected from a forming star before the hydrogen and oxygen isn’t it? Or does it come later?

[Raycpa]

This adds a possible source of water for the biblical canopy theory.

[ZX12R]

Irony is ejected from a forming star before the hydrogen and oxygen isn’t it? Or does it come later?

Yes, before. And it apparently all collects in Scythian's head.

[onedoug]

Carbon and silicon too.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. --Psalm 19:1

[Red Badger]

...the pulses fly out at 50 kilometers a second, or about 120,000 mph.

At that speed, not that far.....................

[TigersEye]

So it’s attracted to osmium?

[antiRepublicrat]

Seriously - the stars just “happen” to spew out the most important molecule for life in the Universe.

Flip the logic around, maybe life got based on water because it gets shot out of baby stars in immense quantities, water was what was available.

[TigersEye]

Oh, I think the Oort Cloud is a little further than 120,000 miles. ;^)

[Red Badger]

120,000 mph! In space, those particles travel unimpeded until they reach the limits of the gravitational pull of the star. Like shooting a bullet straight up, in will eventually fall back down. The water and ice would all collect at the extremes of the gravity sink and perhaps form comets and other objects to rain down upon the new stars planetary system, perhaps creating a new Earth in the process................

[dila813]

Thought that was out past Pluto and part of the disk, I was talking about objects not part of the disk, just stuck in our Lagrange Points of the solar system

[TigersEye]

Yeah, maybe.

[Red Badger]

Way out past Pluto!........But still in the gravitational pull of the sun. The water molecules may have come from when our star was a baby........................

[Red Badger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

[Vroomfondel]

...each jet of water is the equivalent of a hundred million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second and the speed of the jet is the equivalent of 80 times the muzzle velocity of an AK-47 assault rifle.

I wonder how much energy it takes, expressed in jelly doughnuts, to push the water like that.

[hosepipe]

[ they don’t have a clue about things 750 million light years away, not a clue. ]

Nice yarn tho...
These people love yarns... like marxism.. or even democracy..

[dila813]

http://www.universetoday.com/23870/the-milky-ways-rotation/

[ZX12R]

I wonder how much energy it takes, expressed in jelly doughnuts, to push the water like that.

I'm not sure, but if you could release the energy bound up in the jelly donut's mass in it's entirety, I'd guess around 522.

[ZX12R]

So it’s attracted to osmium?

Me thinks I don't know what osmium is.

[TigersEye]

The densest known element.

[ZX12R]

The densest known element.

Thanks for teaching me something today. I didn't know that.

[dragonblustar]

The densest known element.

I thought that was Keith-Olbermmanium.

[Maceman]

Baby star blasts jets of water into space

Wow, this kid can do anything!