Baby star blasts jets of water into space

[Brandon]

Found on physorg.com

Astronomers have found a nascent star 750 light years from earth that shoots colossal jets of water -- a cosmic fire hose -- out its poles in bullet-like pulses.

Sounds like a fun ride so far!

In a process that almost defies adjectives and analogies, 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.
The blast creates huge shockwaves around the star and the process may be responsible for sprinkling the universe with water.
And it could go on for a thousand years in each star. Astronomers think all baby stars go through this process as they form, and that our sun did it too once.

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[Panache]

That is cool-looking! The water kind of looks like a big ray of light being emitted from the star.

 

[rosebud]

Never seen anything like that. Never knew stars start out that way. As they say, you learn something new every day.

 

[Monster]

Cosmology is a very interesting topic. Whenever I see a night sky chock full of stars (as in the telescope videos I posted earlier), I'm completely overwhelmed at the sheer size of the universe and the limitless amount of stars in it.

In space ( <- the right word ), there's limitless space!!