<ul><li>Water likely appeared 100 million to 200 million years after the Big Bang, billions of years earlier than previously predicted.</li><li>Oxygen forged in supernovas combined with hydrogen to create water.</li><li>The amount of water in early gas clouds was small, but concentrated in regions where planets and stars formed.</li><li>The presence of water early in the Universe suggests conditions for life formation were in place earlier than imagined.</li></ul>

The universe's water is billions of years older than scientists thought — and may be nearly as old as the Big Bang itself

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