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有人说，了解水就是了解宇宙和生命本身。2021年，阿塔卡马大毫米/亚毫米阵列（ALMA）的观测在早期宇宙中质量最大的星系中发现了这种原始物质。
科学家们研究了SPT0311-58的ALMA数据，在距离地球近128.8亿光年的星系中发现了H2O水分子和一氧化碳。对这两种分子的大量检测表明，在早期恒星中形成元素后不久，分子宇宙就变得强大起来。这项研究包括迄今为止对早期宇宙中星系分子气体含量的最详细研究，以及对常规恒星形成星系中H2O的最远距离探测。这项研究发表在《天体物理学杂志》上。
It has been said that to understand water is to understand the cosmos and life itself. 2021 observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected this primal substance in the most massive galaxy in the early Universe.
Scientists studying ALMA data of SPT0311-58 found H2O water molecules, along with carbon monoxide in the galaxy, which is located nearly 12.88 billion light years from Earth. Detection of these two molecules in abundance suggests that the molecular universe was going strong shortly after the elements were forged in early stars. The research comprises the most detailed study of molecular gas content of a galaxy in the early universe to date and the most distant detection of H2O in a regular star-forming galaxy. The research is published in The Astrophysical Journal.
