Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at the darkest patch of sky they could find and left the shutter open for ten days. Their goal was to take a galaxy census sample. The sky area is what you'd see through a drinking straw--about one-twelfth the moon's apparent diameter. There are only three foreground stars in this photo, recognizable by camera-spikes. Every other visible object is a distant galaxy. As a direct result, astronomers doubled their estimate of galaxies in the observable universe, to 400,000,000,000.
As a lay person I did a sermon years ago using a similar image (the same image?) as a prop. (Before the screen presentations and had it printed on a large poster).
The sermon was about the love, grace and power of God. And this image shows not only how vast all of creation is - but how vast all of the attributes of God are.
I commented something like “You know how as a parent we tell our child ‘I love you THIS much’ and spread out our arms as wide as they can go? I wonder if God created this immense universe as if spreading His arms wide and saying ‘I love you THIS much!’”
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