Voor het eerst hebben astronomen onomstotelijk vastgesteld dat waterijs bestaat in de nabijheid van een andere ster. Ondanks allerlei mondiale onrust schrijdt de wetenschap dus gelukkig toch nog voort.

There’s Water on the Moon?

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/theres-water-on-the-moon/

Where are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 now?

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-voyager-1-and-voyager-2-now/

NASA’s Hubble Finds Water Vapor in Small Exoplanet’s Atmosphere:

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/nasas-hubble-finds-water-vapor-in-small-exoplanets-atmosphere/

Water absorption in the transmission spectrum of the water-world candidate GJ 9827 d:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.10845

Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-119

HD 181327:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_181327

The polarisation properties of the HD 181327 debris ring - Evidence for sub-micron particles from scattered light observations:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.02000

VLT (ESO):

https://www.eso.org/public/netherlands/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/

An icy Kuiper-Belt around the young solar-type star HD 181327:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.3398

Water ice in the debris disk around HD 181327:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.08863

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