 Stars are born out of icy cocoons of gas and dust that form a disk and clump together into planets. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to detect water vapor as it smacks down on a disk circling a forming star called NGC 1333-IRAS 4B. This vapor started out as ice in the outer envelope, but vaporized upon its arrival at the disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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