The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun (Published 2016) (2024)

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The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun (Published 2016)? ›

As much as half of all the water on Earth may have come from that interstellar gas according to astrophysicists' calculations. That means the same liquid we drink and that fills the oceans may be millions of years older than the solar system itself.

By looking at the water on protostar V883 Orion, a mere 1,305 light-years from Earth, scientists found a "probable link" between the water in the interstellar medium and the water in our solar system. That likely means our water is billions of years older than the sun.

Scientists looking into the origin of life on Earth have claimed that the water present on the planet is very, very old. In fact, a new study has said that it's older than the Sun. The research is based on the discovery of water vapour around V883 Orionis, a young star, 1,305 light years away from Earth.

Therefore, researchers estimate, 30 to 50 percent of our solar system's water was already a part of the ancient molecular cloud that spawned the Sun and planets.

It's a mystery how the world became awash in it. But one prevailing theory says that water originated on our planet from ice specks floating in a cosmic cloud before our sun was set ablaze, more than 4.6 billion years ago.

GRB 090423 was also the oldest known object in the Universe, apart from the Methuselah star. As the light from the burst took approximately 13 billion years to reach Earth.

As much as half of all the water on Earth may have come from that interstellar gas according to astrophysicists' calculations. That means the same liquid we drink and that fills the oceans may be millions of years older than the solar system itself.

It suggests that most of Earth's water was on the surface at that time, during the Archean Eon between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, with much less in the mantle. The planet's surface may have been virtually completely covered by water, with no land masses at all.

The early existence of this gas with Earth-like isotopic composition implies that Earth's water was there before the accretion of the first constituent blocks of our planet. These findings2 are published in Nature Astronomy (3 February 2022).

With slow travel times, and long travel distances, the age of ground water may be tens of years or more between recharge and discharge. Some deep confined ground water is thousands of years old and yet is still slowly on the move.

Is water older than the Sun NASA? ›

Earth's water is older than the Sun New work has found that much of our solar system's water likely originated as ices that formed in interstellar space. An illustration of water in our solar system through time from before the Sun's birth through the creation of the planets.

Water is wet, in the sense of being a liquid which flows easily, because its viscosity is low, which is because its molecules are rather loosely joined together.

Those in the 65-and-older crowd simply have less water in their bodies than younger adults or children. Decreased kidney function also can affect fluid levels. The reduction in thirst that comes with age can keep that already low supply from being replenished.

– Yes. The water on our Earth today is the same water that's been here for nearly 5 billion years. Only a tiny bit of it has escaped out into space.

In addition, the amount of water on earth can change over time. If water is broken down by hydrolysis into oxygen and hydrogen, hydrogen that is released to the atmosphere is too light to stay. It floats into outer space and is lost from the earth's atmosphere. Yes, we are constantly creating “new” water.

Drinking water that is thoroughly disinfected can be stored indefinitely in capped plastic or glass containers that water will not rust, as metal containers may. Because the disinfectant that was in the water when you stored it will slowly go away, replacing the water every six months is recommended. 2.

"We can now trace the origins of water in our solar system to before the formation of the sun." Astronomers have detected an abundance of water in the form of gas in a disk of planet-forming material that surrounds a distant star. The disk appears to contain hundreds of times more water than in all of Earth's oceans.

The Sun and the planets formed together, 4.6 billion years ago, from a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. A shock wave from a nearby supernova explosion probably initiated the collapse of the solar nebula. The Sun formed in the center, and the planets formed in a thin disk orbiting around it.

Earth's water is 4.5 billion years old, just like the article's title says. At least some of it is. According to the authors, planetesimals probably delivered it to Earth, but exactly how that happens isn't clear. There's a lot more complexity that scientists need to sort through before they can figure that out.

Mineralogical evidence from zircons has shown that liquid water and an atmosphere must have existed 4.404 ± 0.008 billion years ago, very soon after the formation of Earth.