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Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:09 AM Mar 2013

Watching a planet’s birth

Watching a planet’s birth

Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:52
Written by Haluka Maier-Borst

Chilean telescope seems to have found a planet in the midst of formation.



In an unprecedented discovery, group of astrophysicists seems to have found a planet in the process of being formed thanks to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile’s Paranal Observatory.

The discovered object is about 335 lightyears from earth and close to the young star HD 100546 which has a wide extended disk of material and cosmic dust around itself.

“We knew from earlier research that the disk around this star had a lot of asymmetries in the spectrum of send out light,” said Sascha Quanz, first-author of the new research paper.

Quanz went on to explain that the irregularities around the star were something more interesting than illusions from the disk’s angle.

New research by Quanz’s team revealed that the most likely explanation for these asymmetries is a still-developing planet.

More:
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/science-technology/25800-watching-a-planets-birth

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Watching a planet’s birth (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2013 OP
Wow, the birth of a planet. Very exciting! Thanks. nt Live and Learn Mar 2013 #1
Seein' as how earth is only 6000 years old can't we see that right here? Demo_Chris Mar 2013 #2
It should only GiveMeFreedom Mar 2013 #3
I am pretty sure this whole "light year" thing is fake as well Demo_Chris Mar 2013 #4
Hmm?? GiveMeFreedom Mar 2013 #5
:) n/t Demo_Chris Mar 2013 #6
Cigars for everyone! Fantastic Anarchist Mar 2013 #7

GiveMeFreedom

(976 posts)
3. It should only
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:07 PM
Mar 2013

take 6 days for the new planet to form according to your logic , unless the flying spaghetti monster is busy one of those days, like say picking a new pope or killing some infidels somewhere. Then it might take a few more days. Peace and love.

 

Demo_Chris

(6,234 posts)
4. I am pretty sure this whole "light year" thing is fake as well
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:34 PM
Mar 2013

That's just a THEORY! It is well known by Creation SCIENTISTS that many of these claims advanced by so-called mainstream "scientists" are completely FALSE and are, in fact, red herrings put FORTH by S*tan (aka Lucifer) to decieve people. Note how the satanic MEDIA and "scientific" communities suppress this truth. They DON'T want people to KNOW. They don't call him the master of LIES for nothing!!

So if you ARE challenging me with your so-CALLED science theories you are doing the devil's work and on judgement day God (Jehovah, etc) will have a special PLACE for you. You'll be screaming your so-called "science" THEORIES from a place so HOT it makes these theoretic stars look like the north POLE! So stop LISTENING to these theories (aka LIES), and save yourself before it's too late!


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