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Science 20 July 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5529, pp. 407 - 408
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5529.407a
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ASTRONOMY:
Wet Stellar System Like Ours Found

Richard A. Kerr

A solar system is dying, and in its last gasps astronomers 5 light-years away can see signs that a billion comets are blazing into oblivion at once. The discovery of huge amounts of water streaming away from an aging, swollen red giant star in the constellation Leo shows that our own planetary system is not alone in harboring a key ingredient of life as we know it, researchers reported in last week's issue of Nature.

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