PROOF WANTED: Scientists have yet to prove...

PROOF WANTED: Scientists have yet to prove there are other solar systems. . . . Now comes UC Irvine physics professor Rognvald Garden. With a $25,000 grant from the Rockwell International Trust, the Shetland Islands native is building an astronomical camera and spectrometer that he hopes will witness the birth of planets around distant stars. “Ours will be the only infrared instrument around able to detect motions of gases” that are forming planets, he said.