Posted on 07/05/2016 10:16:32 PM PDT by LibWhacker
This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy -- otherwise known as M31.
This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image.
It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy's pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.
This image is too large to be easily displayed at full resolution and is best appreciated using the zoom tool.
If God wills it, then there is.
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When Christ reigns from David's throne in Jerusalem and fulfills the Abrahamic covenant as well, when the seed of Abraham shall be as the stars of the heaven, and when Christ's own Body the Church shall also reign and be with Him forever, there shall be a never ending INCREASE of His kingdom for which he created and ordered His creation including what Hubble will never be able to see.
However, there are created beings in that second heaven now, also of the kind that Hubble is incapable of recording; an fallen angelic order, which will be removed.
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Uh, what are trying to say? I have no idea what your post means regarding life in the universe. I fully believe that there are millions of planets full of life out there.
“The stars, like dust...”
Could it be the Space Battleship Yamato?
The angels God created are also life. "Outer" Space, the Second Heaven is their temporary abode, and in their rebellion against God and intent to deceive can make men on earth see many unusual things, as they are that powerful: UFOs, aliens, etc., etc., etc. Any thing Coast-to-Coast Radio tells us is the "paranormal" can be easily performed by angels. Anything to distract fallen man from the truth of God . . . .
But as an example, God reserved the resources of the North American continent for about 5,500 years until Gospel-bearing, Biblicist Christian people could find their way to what Guyot called "the Continent of Fulfillment" (in contrast to Asia, "the continent of origins," and Europe, "the continent of development"). There were inhabitants on North America (Asians also), but they could only develop the resources to a very limited extent, and that because having had the truths of the True God from Noah's son, Shem, they had abandoned Him for false Gods, animal worship, AND the worship of unclean spirits (part of that fallen angelic realm).
God is reserving the resources and the wonders of the second heaven for the fulfillment of Biblical prophesy, and man is goofing around with the earth (even worshipping it in effect), the moon, and dreaming about Mars. God won't let man "exploit" outer space in his un-believing, self-worshipping, wicked, God-rejecting, sinful condition.
Thanks shibumi, extra to APoD.
Odin worship sounds saner the more Christians you meet.
That there is anything of intelligent life anywhere in the area captured in that Hubble shot, anything like man, or beyond, except for angels which God has revealed to us in Scripture, is itself a faith system, a religion. It can’t be demonstrated with science, it can only be believed without seeing with the mortal eye, hence, a faith system, a belief, a religion.
All of heaven was created for man. To discover, explore and eventually colonize. We will eventually fill the entire universe that God made for us.......................
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Um, okay. But, does it all mean you believe there is life out there or not?
The magnitude of God's creation (and therefore, of course, of Him) is overwhelming at every scale. One function that's helped me gain some comprehension uses my heart-rate as a basis of comparison. A human being's heart beats one billion times in roughly thirty years--so I'm at ~2.25 billion.
Not until Christ reigns Personally over it from David's Throne.
The Red Line? That’s a branch of the Andromeda’s Train.
No, but I’m pretty sure I saw the Millennium Falcon...
And a small moon up ahead...
That’s no moon. It’s a space station!
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