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To: SkyDancer
Well, you didn't supply the source as requested, but I'll show my very favorite photograph anyway.

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.


13 posted on 07/24/2020 7:23:26 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

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!’”


16 posted on 07/25/2020 3:46:39 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

What request?


18 posted on 07/25/2020 5:18:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
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20 posted on 07/25/2020 6:18:30 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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