Nature Astronomy News
Stars are primary contributors to this significant enhancement of heavier elements through mass ejections and stellar explosions. Li, however, understood to be an exemption.
Astronomers have been trying to figure out Jupiter's water content for decades and this mystery "represents a critical missing piece to the puzzle of our solar system's formation."
The finding agrees with the results of a 2016 study by a team independent of the Cassini mission that estimated the thickness of Enceladus' icy crust.
The debris appears to be rocky and suggests that terrestrial planets like Tatooine might exist in the system, according to the researchers.
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