I'm not just talking about a little water, like a spring shower. Not even a hot summer downpour, or a hurricane-level deluge. No, the water-fall we're talking about here is equivalent to five Earthly oceans plummeting onto this hot proto-planet. See the artist's interpretation for how this might look:

Click the image to see the story.

That's a storm. (Now if only we could get astronomers to come up with prettier names for these distant worlds than ones like this: "NGC 1333-IRAS 4B." Um, not sexy. But the image sure is.)

Best,
Chris
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From: [identity profile] silk-noir.livejournal.com


Something perhaps referencing the birth of Aphrodite from the oceans?

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


Great idea! There should be a tool for people to submit nominations for naming astronomical objects....

From: [identity profile] bdkellmer.livejournal.com


Okay, the aliens are getting really artistic now.

Really, though -- that is incredible.

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


You wouldn't believe how much work it took for them to cart all that water over to NGC 1333-IRAS 4B, put it into a high-enough orbit so it wouldn't melt from radiative heat while they transported the rest of the water over, and then drop the orbit so it would all fall at the same time.

The things people do for Art.

From: [identity profile] margaretq.livejournal.com


That project was not accomplished with a single grant, I suppose. :) But, it sure is the prettiest performance art (ha) I've ever seen.

Its amazing. How would this actually occur?

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


How? It's the miracle of nature.

Actually, though, there's lots of hydrogen and oxygen in the universe, and they want to be together.
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