• Question: can water be found in space

    Asked by deer46can to Maxime, Jake, Amy Heather on 11 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by JoeyDman.
    • Photo: Maxime Savatier

      Maxime Savatier answered on 11 Nov 2019: last edited 11 Nov 2019 8:57 am

      Yes, water can be found in space too. On asteroids and on other planets in the universe.

      Most of the time it is found as ice but also in some cases as liquid, for example as recently found on Mars:
      https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44952710

    • Photo: Amy Heather Fitzpatrick

      Amy Heather Fitzpatrick answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      Yes water has been found in our own solar systems and also predicted to be present in other solar systems. A few years ago some scientists found that inside a quasar, there is a water present. The water in the quasar is 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world’s oceans combined, and 100,000 times more massive than the sun but this quasar is so far away it took 12 billion years for its light to reach Earth.

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