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A new study suggests water first formed billions of years earlier than expected — as early as 100 million years after the big bang. According to these simulations, huge volumes of water, the primary ingredient for life, formed close to cosmic dawn — the moment the first generation of stars was born.


Telescopes looking at the farthest reaches of space have found that abundances of water existed less than two billion years after the Big Bang. But a recent study suggests something rather explosive: water may have been present as early as 100 to 200 million years after the universe came to be.

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