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LOS ANGELES - Scientists think they have solved the mystery of how planets form around a star born in a violent supernova explosion, saying they have detected for the first time a swirling disk of debris from which planets can rise.

Dim witted people will observe that word and believe they did something actually. Speculation, assumption, guessing.

First time: A first time experience and they can determine a whole working hypothesis.

The discovery is surprising because the dusty disk orbiting the pulsar, or dead star, resembles the cloud of gas and dust from which Earth emerged. Scientists say the latest finding should shed light on how planetary systems form.

Resembles the cloud of gas: please where are those old family photos. Speculation assumption, guessing.

"It shows that planet formation is really ubiquitous in the universe. It's a very robust process and can happen in all sorts of unexpected environments," said lead researcher Deepto Chakrabarty, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ubiquitous=? One planet many formations.

Can happen, yea might happen could happen, should happen, thought to happen. Speculation, assumption, guessing.

Using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, MIT scientists observed bright radiation released by a disk of rubble around a young pulsar 13,000 light years from Earth. The pulsar was once a giant star that collapsed in a supernova explosion about 100,000 years ago.

The farthest man can accurately measure from earth is about 20 light years some will say 100, this is all due to the angle the earth makes in the rotation around the sun which would be about 1 degree when measured 6 months apart, in those kind of distances it would be like looking down a straight line, it would not even resemble a triangle.

Chakrabarty said the debris disk most likely formed

Scientists have long believed that planets like Earth were formed when dust surrounding a young star began to clump, smashing and fusing into one another.

That is an out right lie they have only believed recently, many scientist were Christians. Even many scientist are and were Christians today yet they do not stand up for Jesus because it goes against the flow of worldly thinking.

I just have two words:

Pure flapdoodle!

"... many scientist were Christians ..."

Being a Christian is not a barrier to being a Scientist, merely an impediment.

The farthest man can accurately measure from earth is about 20 light years some will say 100, this is all due to the angle the earth makes in the rotation around the sun which would be about 1 degree when measured 6 months apart, in those kind of distances it would be like looking down a straight line, it would not even resemble a triangle.

Have you been reading some old science books? Say, 200 years old?