![]() ![]() It seems we so rarely share anything collectively that is positive anymore. This collective experience of looking into the heavens is perhaps just what we long for in the days of pandemics, uncertainty, and change. But these glimpses have given humanity a moment of collective awe and a reminder of what we accomplish when we work together. The truth of the grandeur of nature, the glory of creation, the vastness of the universe – and the miracle of God’s ongoing and daily renewal are seen in these images. Looking at these pictures magnifies both our insignificance and our reason for being. “the more I study science, the more I believe in God”. These beautiful, powerful pictures are but one sliver of creation! The power, magnitude, creativity, and the “making all things new” ways of our God are revealed in these pictures. It is one minuscule sliver of our universe, filled with thousands of galaxies, each with billions or trillions of star systems in each of those with its own planets”. For a sense of scale, if you could hold a grain of sand at arm’s length up to the sky, that speck is the size of the view. “While there are a few interloper stars in the photo, nearly every dot in the image is a galaxy. For perspective, the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years across.Īs astronomers explained in a recent New York Times article, every dot in the image is a huge galaxy: The Webb telescope is capable of looking 13.6 billion light years away. “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what are mere mortals that you are mindful of them?” Since NASA released the first images from the James Webb space telescope, revealing the largest and most intensive view of the universe, I can’t help but think of Psalm 8: ![]()
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