…A heart and mind searching for truth in a lying, fallen world.
Despite the immensity of the universe, galaxies still collide or nearly collide with each other. When their sizes are disparate, as they approach, the larger one, due to its tremendous gravitational forces and larger mass will begin to distort the…
If you live indoors you eventually have to deal with dust bunnies, those amorphous collections of dust that congregate in the corners of rooms, around the edges of furniture, and are regular visitors to homes of those who have dogs…
There are areas in some galaxies that have a large cluster of new stars forming, new suns being born. In this area of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way, a rash of infant stars is…
One of the beautiful things about the Hubble is its ability to capture images that show changes over time. Our universe is in constant motion and undergoing constant change. Some of those changes are revealing, much as pictures of an…
When most people think of death they do not usually consider the death of stars. However, astronomers do and from the passing of a star they hope to glean significant information about the nature of stars. In The Voyage of…
Some Hubble pictures are almost like looking at clouds, they take their shape from your imagination and it is possible to see things like giant sombreros and the eye of God. But some pictures are different. They are like peeking…
One of my favorite scriptures when I was a young Christian was Isaiah 40:31. …but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary;…
A lot of the Hubble pictures have been given catchy titles by either people at NASA or by the various societies or press who cover and disseminate the Hubble catalog. Todays selection, the Sombrero Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy in…
Looking back at The Eye of God shot I posted on Sunday, I decided that it would be fun to present a series of Hubble shots over the summer. So each Tuesday I will put up another selection. Scripture tells…
You may have previously seen this picture of the Helix Nebula, which has been called the Eye of God. It is a composite done by the Hubble in 2002. I now use it for my desktop. If you want the…
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