NASA: Planet Formed 13 Billion Years Ago

Yahoo! News ^ | 7/10/03 | Deborah Zabarenko - Reuters

[NormsRevenge]

Thu Jul 10, 4:29 PM ET

A rich starry sky fills the view from an ancient gas-giant planet in the core of the globular star cluster M4, as imagined in this artist's concept. The 13-billion-year-old planet orbits a helium white-dwarf star and the millisecond pulsar B1620-26, seen at lower left. The globular cluster is deficient in heavier elements for making planets, so the existence of such a world implies that planet formation may have been quite efficient in the early universe. REUTERS/NASA (news - web sites)

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[meandog]

Considering that it is 5,600 light years away; it probably doesn't exist any longer--relatively speaking, of course!

[Michael Barnes]

Gonna keep an eye on this thread..once the young earth one's show up, this should get interesting..

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[11th Earl of Mar]

I would think NASA would be spending this time and money on finding out the cause of the Columbia explosion.

[thegreatbeast]

In your lifetime this estimate will be revised at least once a year. Along with archeological finds that reorder our conception of the age of Man. (The Leakeys are good for one themselves each year.)

[goodseedhomeschool]

MOre linear age assumptions placemarker

[Lockbar]

"The oldest planet ever detected is nearly 13 billion years old and more than twice the size of Jupiter, locked in orbit around a whirling pulsar and a white dwarf"

Ok, so where do we insignificant humans on Earth fit into this picture? ;-)

[Prodigal Son]

once the young earth one's show up, this should get interesting..

Oh, you've done it now... ;-)

[Michael Barnes]

LOL...surely you jest..

[Prodigal Son]

Surely I jest what? ;-)

[jlogajan]

Considering that it is 5,600 light years away; it probably doesn't exist any longer--relatively speaking, of course!

Actually, that's only about a 1000 years older than the first pyramids. No big deal age wise. I don't think pulsars or white dwarves have short life spans.

[Orangedog]

I'll watch this one too. I've never seen the young-earth types in action on one of these threads before. I'm guessing that their position is that the earth is only about 6000 years old, give or take a millenia. The ones who so vehemently defend that if it's not in the Bible, it didn't happen have always intrigued me. I'm by no means an atheist, but I'm also under no impression that God was obligated to tell us everything about the universe when the Bible was written.

[longshadow]

1st generation planet in M4 PING!

[ALASKA]

"It's only a model"

[js1138]

ping

[Willie Green]

"It's only a model"

I bet you wouldn't say that about Cindy Crawford, Kathy Ireland or Elle MacPhearson.

[Michael Barnes]

I think you have squarely hit it on the head..

[RadioAstronomer]

Way cool! Thanks for the ping :-)