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To: SkyDancer
I certainly agree that God created hundreds of billions of galaxies and that He us in total control of His entire physical universe, especially including us--you're on absolutely solid ground there.

I've taken an active interest in astronomy for sixty years and am Christian astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross' friend and biggest booster. That is obviously the Andromeda Galaxy, at two million light-years distance. What took that photo at a distance sufficient to shrink our star to apparent insignificance? Surely not Hubble. Voyager? The specific source of the picture, if you please.

If you answer, I will top your picture and reinforce your point, not that it needs strengthening. And your photo, and mine, fit this thread: this is God's art.

9 posted on 07/24/2020 6:02:01 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

We think that we’re it, but when you pull back and really look you can see how really insignificant we are - but yet God knows us, in all the infinite universe He knows us, individually.


10 posted on 07/24/2020 6:18:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Obviously the image of “our galaxy” is either an artist’s rendition, or perhaps of a similar spiral galaxy to give an idea of where we sit.

One of the Voyager’s did pass out of our solar system a few years ago. IIRC it was still sending back data - but no photos. I think it may have been “shut down” in hopes of booting it up again at some time?


17 posted on 07/25/2020 3:55:18 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

It is a Hubble photo of Andromeda.

Here it’s credited:

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/science-halo-andromeda-galaxy-02780.html


24 posted on 07/25/2020 7:26:13 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Oops!

The photo is actually from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, not Hubble.


25 posted on 07/25/2020 7:30:07 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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