HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!  ARGGHHH!!

Article below, in black -- my own notes made obvious by different color text and brackets.  You may click on the link to get the article without my commentary.

Scientists Crack Mystery of Planet Formation

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Scientists think they have solved the mystery of how planets form around a star born in a violent supernova explosion, saying they have detected for the first time a swirling disk of debris from which planets can rise.

The discovery is surprising because the dusty disk orbiting the pulsar, or dead star, resembles the cloud of gas and dust from which Earth emerged.

["...resembles the cloud of gas and dust from which Earth emerged."  Ha ha ha.  Please note that this is a huge assumption that they have once again failed to mention.  Evolution is entirely founded upon assumptions.  ... resembles - HA HA HA!!]

Scientists say the latest finding should shed light on how planetary systems form.

"It shows that planet formation is really ubiquitous in the universe. It's a very robust process and can happen in all sorts of unexpected environments," said lead researcher Deepto Chakrabarty, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

["ubiquitous"! Now there is a big word! These people who wrote this must know what they are talking about because they know that word, and I don't.  Let's look it up:  ubiquitous: adj - being present everywhere at once {syn: omnipresent}  Everywhere at once??  Everywhere at once ... omnipresent... WAIT A MINUTE!!  That sounds like God!  HE is omnipresent. "Its a very robust process and can happen in all sorts of unexpected environments."  Now doesn't THAT sound scientific?  Puleeze!]   

Details appear in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

[keep reading if you can bear the ridicules]

Using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, MIT scientists observed bright radiation released by a disk of rubble around a young pulsar 13,000 light years from Earth. The pulsar was once a giant star that collapsed in a supernova explosion about 100,000 years ago.

While researchers did not directly see planets forming in the disk, they believe the building blocks are present.  ["while they did not see ... they believe ..."]

In 1992, another team of scientists found planets circling a different pulsar, but they did not observe a disk and could not tell how the planetary system formed.  ["did not observe a disk and could not tell how the planetary system formed ... " so in the paragraph above, they didn't see planets forming in the disk.  In this paragraph they found planets without a disk and couldn't tell how the planetary system formed.]

Chakrabarty said the debris disk most likely formed from metal-rich material that failed to escape the supernova. The disk resembled that seen around sun-like stars, leading researchers to conclude it might spawn a new planetary system. ["... most likely formed ... it might spawn ..." - did you catch that?]

If planets did exist in the recently discovered debris disk, they would not be habitable because of the violent process that gave rise to the disk, said astronomer Charles Beichman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

"This is more Chernobyl than Malibu," said Beichman, who had no role in the research.  [" ... who had no role in the research."  Unimportant statement anyhow, in my worldview and with their lack of any substance in this article.  It just underlines the nonsense of it all.]

Scientists have long believed that planets like Earth were formed when dust surrounding a young star began to clump, smashing and fusing into one another.  [ ... because ... what?  Because nothing, that's what.  More of the above is all they have.]

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