Posted on 07/18/2023 1:07:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What's happening in the night sky? To help find out, telescopes all over the globe will be pointing into deep space. Investigations will include trying to understand the early universe, finding and tracking Earth-menacing asteroids, searching for planets that might contain extra-terrestrial life, and monitoring stars to help better understand our Sun. The featured composite includes foreground and background images taken in April from a mountaintop on La Palma island in the Canary Islands of Spain. Pictured, several telescopes from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory are shown in front of a dark night sky. Telescopes in the foreground include, left to right, Magic 1, Galileo, Magic 2, Gran Telescopio Canarias, and LST. Sky highlights in the background include the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, the constellations of Sagittarius, Ophiuchus and Scorpius, the red-glowing Eagle and Lagoon Nebulas, and the stars Alrami and Antares. Due to observatories like this, humanity has understood more about our night sky in the past 100 years than ever before in all of human history.
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wow...
someone has a vivid imagination but not too many smarts...
In the observable universe, it is estimated that there are approx. 200 billion galaxies with the Milky Way containing approx. 50.
Based on those numbers, I would not discount the possibility that there is life somewhere out there that is hundreds, if not thousands, of years more advanced in technology than us. Just look how far we have come in the past 100 years. God only knows what awaits us in the next 100 - 200 years.
I wish I could live to see it.....
Can someone here answer a question? I see many photos of the Milky Way - would that view be visible with the naked eye, or does it only look that way in a photo because of a long exposure?
Yes, that is not visible to the eye like that. Lots of exposures and sometimes they filter the light spectrum to bring out detail.
Reading how they stack exposures made my head hurt.
Why stop with thousands of years? Life from elsewhere could be millions of years ahead of us in technology and intellectual development. That would explain why they stay the heck away from Earth.
Beautiful.
Heb 1:2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Heb 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Worlds, plural, more than one. Then:
Isa 45:18
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
I don’t think He created the other worlds in vain either – he formed them to be inhabited as well.
Also: Ephesians 3:10
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, Ephesians 6:12:
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
It truly is a wonderful image...
If I’m not mistaken at approximately 2:30 you can observe the pair of Bud Light wee-wee novas...
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