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    Warm water vapour in the sooty outflow from a luminous carbon star

    The discovery in 2001 of water vapour around the ageing carbon star IRC+10216 was a surprise, because stellar evolution models predicted the virtual absence of water in carbon-rich stars. Several explanations ...

    L. Decin, M. Agúndez, M. J. Barlow, F. Daniel, J. Cernicharo, R. Lombaert in Nature (2010)