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A change in research perspective will greatly benefit the progress of science! The delay tactics of the hangers-on, has become a pattern of humorous hand waving.

Multispectral Galaxy Studies Contradict Theories 08/27/2004
The latest issue of Caltech’s magazine Engineering and Science¹ has beautiful pictures of galaxies taken in ultraviolet by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), and in the infrared by Hubble’s sister, the Spitzer Space Telescope. Combining images of the same galaxy in visible, ultraviolet and infrared is helping astronomers figure out their structure, and as D. Christopher Martin claims, the origin and evolution of galaxies and stars. Why, then, at the end of the article, does he say this?

The interesting thing is that the history we have measured completely disagrees with some of the most recent models. (Emphasis added in all quotes.)

He had just pointed out that “our early results seem to be telling us that star formation was much more vigorous in the past” and that “something has changed very radically about star formation since that time....”
Whatever; discovery marches on. “We have found many other interesting things, and we have only just begun to survey the sky. As our own team and other astronomers explore the data, we look forward to many other discoveries in the future.”

¹D. Christopher Martin, “Galaxy Evolution: The View from the Ultraviolet,” Engineering and Science (LXVII:2, 2004), pp. 8-15

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Excellent article! It should have a thread of it's own.

Discovery of Vast Tail on Dying Star Promises Clues to Solar Birth
The Washington Post via Drudge Report | August 16, 2007 | Marc Kaufman
Posted on 08/15/2007 10:42:32 PM EDT by RDTF
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