Protoplanet Discovered in the First Stages of Formation
01 April 2008
Somewhere around the constellation of Taurus (520 light years away) a group from St Andrews University has captured a planet in the early stages of evolution. Their “high resolution” images could be enough to crush anyone that doesn't believe in billions of years. Right???
There is only one problem. They don't have any images. Even the closest star is too far away to get a picture of it so everything we know about stars is from the light they produce. The telescopes at Jodrell Bank Observatory are large radio telescopes that listen to the electromagnetic noise streaming into the planet and from this they determine everything we know about extra solar systems.
Dr Jane Greaves said, “We took an image with a group of radio telescopes with much higher detail than anyone has ever managed before. The images provide a unique view of planet formation in action, and the first picture of a protoplanet still embedded in its birth material. It is the first time anyone has managed to look at a disc like this in such high resolution.”
All the “resolution” we have from these objects are composed of light and radiation that passes through the object and travels millions of miles across the universe to get to us. This is the equivalent of me telling you what a car is made of by the shadow it casts when I'm standing a mile away.
Anita Heward of the Royal Astronomical Society said, “Our instruments are becoming increasingly sensitive and so the possibility of discovering life is coming closer. I would say that has to be the Holy Grail – finding life in the universe and we are slowly edging towards that.”
How sad. When you have to use an object that Jesus himself used to outline God's perfect plan for our redemption and use it to promote a philosophy that renders Christ's death useless.
http://news.scotsman.com/world/-Astrophysicist-tells-of-the.3936635.jp
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html ?in_article_id=553190&in_page_id=1965
