This blog series contains excerpts from "A Twisted History: Genesis and the Cosmos" -
https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Charles%20N.%20Pope&hl=enhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W0NR3CILast year brought a spectacular confirmation that binary star systems predominate in our galactic neighborhood, and that they are capable of generating viable planets.
The image below shows a star system that was previously thought to be a binary, but has now proven to be a triple star system with the help of improved telescopes and imaging techniques.
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> GG Tauri, "The Feeding Twins - Scratch That - Triplets"
Image Credit: ESO / L. Caçada
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/29/a-planet-with-three-suns/http://www.zmescience.com/space/astrophysics-space/binary-system-planetary-formation-640645/The below image shows an embryonic binary star system that has been in existence for only about six millions years. The newly operational multi-national ALMA telescope array located in the high desert of northern Chile was constructed to study this and other developing star systems, and gives us our first "real-time look-in" at a planetary world in development.
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> L1551 NE, "The Birth of Little Twin Stars"
Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/ Takakuwa et al.
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/manage/gatenews/showsingle.php?_op=?rid:7097%26isEnglish:1http://www.asianscientist.com/2014/12/general/birth-twin-stars/(The above article contains a very cool simulation of the development of twin planetary systems.)
The next image is that of a more widely separated binary system, and one in which the gravitationally bound stars have their own proto-planetary discs that rotate in different planes.
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> HK Tauri, "The Misaligned Twin Star System"
Image Credit: R. Hurt (NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC)
http://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-room/press-releases/731-alma-finds-double-star-with-weird-and-wild-planet-forming-discs-http://earthsky.org/space/wildly-misaligned-planet-forming-disks-in-binary-star-system-hk-tauIn the study that follows, it will be shown that the double-star origin of our own solar system is preserved in a very unexpected place, that is, the Book of Genesis. We will also discover that Genesis not only provides a descriptive model of our own solar system's formation, but a comprehensive picture of where intelligent life formed in our galaxy. It is this latter subject that we will explore first.
Related News Stories from 2014:
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/26/astronomers-clue-in-to-why-binary-stars-are-so-bountiful/http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24866-astrophile-binary-stars-that-form-like-fraternal-twins.html#.VKrWkTg5CAhhttp://www.sott.net/article/285251-New-study-supports-binary-star-system-hypothesishttp://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/01/new-studies-give-strong-boost-to-binary-star-formation-theoryhttp://www.techtimes.com/articles/17958/20141015/draft-newly-discovered-planet-in-binary-star-system-resembles-uranus.htmhttp://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=31503Previous blog in this series:
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