Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 12:00PM
Drew Wolfe

Astronomers discover largest and most distant reservoir of water yet

ScienceDaily (2011-07-22) -- Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. Looking from a distance of 30 billion trillion miles away into a quasar -- one of the brightest and most violent objects in the cosmos -- the researchers have found a mass of water vapor that's at least 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world's oceans combined.

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