Water of Stars

I remember growing up in a little town next to Fort DIx, New Jersey in the 1970's. Just after the Vietnam War had ended, there was an influx of Southeast Asians into our community from the military base. One of these was a girl named Roxanne who became a friend of mine. Roxanne was into Chinese Astrology, and so she asked me for my birth date. After doing some research, she told me that I was born a "Fire Sheep, containing Water of Stars". Fire Sheep? Water of Stars? I wondered how could water come from stars? At the time I dismissed this as being ridiculous. Years later, after being laid up due to a motorcycle accident, I thought back to that time, and decided to do some research on the topic once I healed. That is how I ended up finding out that water is indeed created in part by stars. 

Keeping in mind that Chinese Astrology dates back to centuries before Christ, what follows is quite interesting. The article below is from National Geographic.

Star Found Shooting Water "Bullets"
Stellar sprinklers may help irrigate cosmos, study suggests.
By Andrew F Zaekas for National Geographic News
 

"...Seven hundred and fifty light-years from Earth, a young, sunlike star has been found with jets that blast epic quantities of water into interstellar space, shooting out droplets that move faster than a speeding bullet.

The discovery suggests that protostars may be seeding the universe with water. These stellar embryos shoot jets of material from their north and south poles as their growth is fed by in-falling dust that circles the bodies in vast disks.

"If we picture these jets as giant hoses and the water droplets as bullets, the amount shooting out equals a hundred million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second," said Lars Kristensen, a postdoctoral astronomer at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

"We are talking about velocities reaching 200,000 kilometers [124,000 miles] per hour, which is about 80 times faster than bullets flying out of a machine gun," said Kristensen, lead author of the new study detailing the discovery, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Using an infrared instrument on the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, researchers were able to peer through the cloud and detect telltale light signatures of hydrogen and oxygen atoms—the building blocks of water—moving on and around the star.

After tracing the paths of these atoms, the team concluded that water forms on the star, where temperatures are a few thousand degrees Celsius. But once the droplets enter the outward-spewing jets of gas, 180,000-degree-Fahrenheit (100,000-degree-Celsius) temperatures blast the water back into gaseous form.

Once the hot gases hit the much cooler surrounding material—at about 5,000 times the distance from the sun to Earth—they decelerate, creating a shock front where the gases cool down rapidly, condense, and reform as water, Kristensen said."
 

The writer above failed to realize that 124,000 miles per hour is just under 2/3 of the speed of light, which is 186,202 miles per hour. As stated previously in the chapter on the Woman and the Dragon, the Sirius star system is located 8.6 light years above our solar system, meaning that if the above example's speed is applied to Sirius' distance from the Earth, it would take just 13 years for water - or plasma, for that matter - from Sirius to wash down and reach our solar system.