Disintegrating Exoplanets Indicate Youth

Astronomers and cosmologists have many planets in our solar system to examine, then along came the discovery of extrasolar planets. Plus all sorts of technology and physics to apply. They must be as happy as a toddler in a roomful of bouncy-balls.

Finding and determining the characteristics of exoplanets takes a great deal of work. They hope for evidence supporting the Big Bang and to find signs of life out yonder, supporting evolution. But finding evidence of recent creation such as disintegrating planets probably gives them the sads.

Top-down view of the simulated dust tail produced by BD+05 4868Ab, WikiComm / Marc Hon et al (CC BY 4.0)

More than one exoplanet is too close to its star, so it is burning away. There is a great deal of supposition going on and the complex scientific principle of Making Things Up™. Maybe something happened so the planets got moved into bad positions.

Yee haw boy howdy are we lucky to be here at this time with our technology to be able to see it! It's good to be a secularist, ignoring how these and other celestial events indicate recent creation, not cosmic evolution. Just interpret the data to support deep time. Simple.

Astronomers have discovered a disintegrating rocky planet in another solar system.1,2 This extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, has been given the designation BD+05 4868 Ab. It orbits so close to its host star that the intense heat is literally vaporizing its solid, rocky material! The astronomers making the discovery explained,

The rest of this hot subject is located at "Rocky Exoplanets Are Literally Being Vaporized."