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The Water Reservoir in a Young Planetary System
TW Hydrae
An artist's conception of an icy, planet-forming disk around the young star TW Hydrae. Astronomers have used the Herschel Space Observatory to detect copious amounts of water ice in this source.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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