How is it that we can see so far out into the universe but we just recently obtained High quality images of Pluto. Also, how is it that we have detected so many exoplanets but can't photograph them like we do with other far away celestial bodies?

How can the disk of "dust" or the "dark bands" stay uniformed around the whole orbit of the star? The stars strong enough to hold supposed exoplanets in orbit but can't pull dust behind and infront of the exoplanets to it? All while moving through space....

Look, I don't want to be rude, but I think that these questions really demonstrate your lack of understanding of mainstream physics. It's one thing to not agree with mainstream physics and thats perfectly fine, but you at least ought to understand what mainstream science says or would say in response to these fairly basic questions, and I don't think you do...

I mean, newton said "we stand on the shoulders of giants", and you know, newton also showed that those same giants were wrong about quite a few things. But he understood them. He understood their logic, he understood why they believed what they believed, even if it was wrong. Its hard to be taken seriously by mainstream physicists if you do not have a basic understanding of what mainstream phsyics is. They're just going to dismiss you as a crackpot, since you don't know what you're talking about.

Anyway, to answer your questions: The dust bands stay in orbit around the star because of angular momentum. Gravity doesn't just suck things in like a vacuum, it alters trajectory. If an object has enough angular momentum, as circling moons, or saturn's rings, or circling dust clouds all have, then it cannot collapse into the star.

to explain, imagine this: Imagine if you are in space and you throw a baseball really fast horizontally relative to the earth. The baseball falls towards the earth due to earth's gravity, but it's also moving. So the total trajectory of the baseball is not directly towards the earth, it's the direction you throw it, slowly curving towards earth due to earth's gravity. So what happens is the baseball overshoots the earth--it doesn't hit the earth, since you gave it angular momentum. And It never hits the earth, because while the earth's gravity is curving the baseball towards it, at the same time the baseball is moving past the earth, always overshooting it. So instead of crashing into the earth, it just spins around it forever. It works the same with anything that has angular momentum--the moon around the earth, the rings around saturn, the earth around the sun, the dust clouds around a protostar...

All while moving through space....

this doesn't matter, due to special relativity. the fact that its moving through space has no effect on its physics. Motion only matters if its relative to another object, since the laws of physics work the same in any inertial reference frame.

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