WATER ON EARTH FOUND TO BE OLDER THAN THE SUN: AUDIO (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by Larimar , Sunday, October 05, 2014, 02:50

The water you're sipping may taste fresh, but a lot of it is very, very old — older than the solar system itself.

"Half the water in our oceans is in fact older than the Sun," science columnist Torah Kachur said in an interview with CBC's Homestretch.

"What that means is a lot of the water that exists on our planet was made before our solar system and it came from a different part of our galaxy altogether."

Hear the full interview with Torah Kachur

The sun is 4.5 billion to 4.6 billion years old.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/water-on-earth-found-to-be-older-than-the-sun-1.2787151