AND THE SKY ABOVE PROCLAIMS HIS HANDIWORK."
Psalm 19:1
You must check out the stunning photos on this NASA website.
There is a spectacular photo each day of the majesty of the universe God has created.
The chance occurrence of these amazing things is unimaginable.
Here is a sample:
Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232
Credit:
FORS1,
8.2-meter VLT
Antu,
ESO
Explanation:
Galaxies
are
fascinating not only for what is visible, but for what is
invisible.
Grand
spiral galaxy
NGC 1232,
captured in
detail by one of the new
Very
Large Telescopes, is a
good example. The visible is dominated by millions
of
bright
stars and
dark
dust,
caught up in a gravitational swirl of spiral arms revolving
about the center.
Open
clusters containing
bright blue stars can be seen sprinkled along these spiral
arms, while
dark
lanes of dense
interstellar
dust
can be
seen sprinkled between them. Less visible, but detectable,
are billions of dim normal stars and vast tracts of
interstellar
gas,
together wielding such high mass that they dominate the
dynamics of the inner
galaxy.
Invisible are even
greater
amounts of
matter in a form we don't yet know - pervasive
dark
matter needed
to explain the
motions
of the
visible in the outer galaxy.
What's
out there?