Recently, I was reading about our incredible universe, this work of God’s hands. Here’s an amazing fact I learned. This just blows my mind.
Imagine yourself looking at the night sky. You take a single grain of sand, and you hold it at arms-length above you, blocking out a tiny portion of the night sky above you.
If you were to train the Hubble Telescope on that portion of night sky that you blocked out, do you know what you would see? The image above shows what the Hubble Telescope found. Not just hundreds of more stars; but hundreds of more galaxies! Each galaxy contains an estimated one billion stars!
And this is truly amazing. As God was explaining to Job about creation, He talked about how he made the heavens and the earth. And then, almost as a afterthought, he added, “Oh yeah, I made all the stars too.” This image displays a part of this “afterthought” never before visible.
Truly, the heavens declare the glory of God!
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard (Psalm 19:1-3).
Dear Jeff, Thanks for that. I was very interested to learn that the Hubble pic above represents such a tiny fraction of our sky. It would be incredibly interesting to know what percentage it actually is; I suspect it's about 0.0000000000001% maximum and probably a lot, lot less. However that may be, I was interested in all the tiny, tiny little background dots in the picture. How incredible to think that when the Webb telescope goes into action (I did read in 2014) that it may show each dot to be another galaxy and each galaxy could be hiding another two galaxies. And each one holds trillions (at least billions) of stars and Psalm 147 says 'He calls them all by name'. Truly God is mindblowingly great and He loves us too!
It is truly amazing, isn't it? Thanks for commenting!
Jeff, yes it is interesting…..deep space where no man has gone before….but soon will! I have a dear friend and Brother in the Lord, Larry Parker that was a a supervisor at Goldstone tracking station in Barstow, Calif. he Supervised the tracking operations of the deep space network at Goldstone. His story is here if you are interested…. http://larrynlucky.tripod.com/id7.html
God Bless and ….thanks for all your update e-mails! God Bless you and Yours…Jim Randleman, NC
Very interesting information! I can’t wait for the day that space travel is common. Not sure if it will happen in my lifetime though…
Have you heard of Giordano Bruno?!
This post reminds me of a YouTube video my wife showed me a few years ago (wished I could remember how to find it). The speaker went from earth to sun to larger star to largest star (where sun wasn’t even as large as a fine point dot in comparison). He made the point that in all of this vastness God knows where we are (or, if he didn’t, I jumped to that brilliant conclusion on my own–which he means he must have made that point). 😀
Glad you shared the link.
Louie Giglio did something very similar in his videos How Great Is Our God and Indescrible.
Exactly! Thanks for reconnecting me with a great link.
No problem! Glad I could help!