No, what’s “surprising” is that these mainstream astrophysicists find a spiral of “gas” around a young star surprising given the fact that this was PREDICTED by Nobel Prize winner, Hannes Alfven, and his colleague Gustaf Arrhenius, back in the 70s (see https://books.google.com/books?id=pvrtC ... ces&f=false ; see pages 138-143, in particular). Sadly, and to the disgrace of all mainstream gnome believing astro-physicists/priests (of their Big Bang Cult), Alfven and Arrhenius' model has been ignored by the mainstream for almost 50 YEARS. Maybe a clue as to why, is the fact that the OP article doesn't mention the word plasma. Neither does the *peer-reviewed* scientific article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.02974.pdf. No, both call all the non-dust material “gas”. That’s how out of touch the gnome believers are with reality and why they are never going to understand what really going on.A Surprising Spiral Around A Planet Factory
by Paul Scott Anderson August 9, 2020
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In a surprising discovery, the ALMA telescope in Chile captured this image of a massive spiral of gas surrounding the planet-forming disk of the young star RU Lup. Image via ALMA (ESO/ NAOJ/ NRAO)/ J. Huang/ AUI/ NSF/ S. Dagnello.
More from the OP article:
Jane Huang of CfA, lead author of the new paper, saidRU Lup is located in our sky in the direction of the constellation Lupus. The star is estimated to be about 400 light-years from Earth. ALMA had taken high-resolution images of the RU Lup disk before, but the new ones focused more on the gas in the disk instead of the dust. They revealed not only the originally seen protoplanetary disk with its gaps where planets are forming, but also a much larger, encompassing, more complex structure that looked like a mini-galaxy with spiral arms.
The spiral structure around RU Lup extends to nearly 1,000 astronomical units (AU) from the star – that is, 1,000 Earth-sun units of distance – much farther than the star’s dust disk, which extends to about 60 AU.
Notice …it's gas … not plasma. No wonder they haven’t a clue what’s going on here. That one oversight illustrates a shocking ignorance given all the time and money spent in their *education*. Or should we say wasted?The fact that we observed this spiral structure in the gas after a deep observation suggests that we have likely not seen the full diversity and complexity of planet-forming environments. We may have missed much of the gas structures in other disks.
Not surprising to plasma cosmologists and electric universe proponents. Probably because they didn’t fall asleep 40-50 years ago when Alfven and Arrhenius published their work. Now we’ve got a bunch of uninformed idiots masquerading as astrophysicists and *science* journalists publishing garbage like this:Protoplanetary disks are known to contain much more gas than dust, but seeing this gas around RU Lup in such a massive spiral formation was surprising.
LOL! No, not unknown processes. Just processes that you mainstream gnome believers have ignored for almost 50 years either because you’ve got blinders on or because you don't want to get fired for having wasted so much money over so long a time. And as you can see, folks, even data like this can’t seem to shake off the blinders. Sad but true.As usually happens, the new observations raise more questions than they provide answers. How did these huge spiral arms form? Huang’s team suggests that the disk may be collapsing under its own gravity due to its significant mass, or it may be accreting interstellar matter through environmental interactions. But neither of those are a simple answer, according to Sean Andrews, CfA astrophysicist and co-author on the paper:
None of these scenarios completely explain what we have observed. There might be unknown processes happening during planet formation that we have not yet accounted for in our models.