Eye Of God Photographed In Space [Breathtaking Pic]

Daily Mirror (U.K.) ^ | February 27, 2009

[Steelfish]

Eye of God photographed in Space

26/02/2009

Eye of God... this breathtaking image of the Helix nebula, giant rings of gas blown off a dying star 700 light years from the Sun, was captured with a special camera at an observatory in Chile. What happens if it blinks...

[mylife]

[Joiseydude]

The eye of God.

[mylife]

Whoaa!

[Steelfish]

Thanks- this is so fascinating!

[Rebelbase]

I never contemplated that God was an Aryan.

[saganite]

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you

Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you...

[upchuck]

Oh, c’mon. Everybody knows God’s eyes are brown :)

Awesome photograph.

[Viking2002]

Hey - thanks for the new desktop wallpaper!

[Terry Mross]

I’ve always thought the earth could be a newtron or proton or electron orbiting around a single atom making the universe one being. God lives in us and we live in Him.

[paulycy]

The sensation of this discovery is second only to that of the Funny Nose and Glasses of the Deep:

[azishot]

Truly AMAZING!

[doc1019]

Hope we never see it blink! ;-)

[Cicero]

Wow. Incredible.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

HE HAS RISEN!

[BenLurkin]

Is there a mote in it?

[Oatka]

Seen on a bumper sticker:

“God’s back, and boy, is he mad!”

[irishtenor]

Yes, my eyes ARE brown.

[Ken H]

Looks bloodshot. Hangover from the Big Bang?

[Gene Eric]

Maybe it’s just a dilation to the outside.

[Oztrich Boy]

We should be watching for a point source blueshifted Solar spectrum in it anyway.

[jwparkerjr]

Just for fun I tracked down the high res version of this image, over 9 megs, and will see how it prints out on my large format HP-130 printer. I've done lots of others from this source and they can be quite magnificent when displayed as a 20x30 poster.

The image as it is downloaded is at 600 dpi, 16,000 x 16,000 pixels. That's more resolution than I need to make a nice 24x24 print so I'm waiting right now as the system resizes it down what the printer really needs, 150 dpi.

We'll see how it goes!

[UnChained]

“Oh, c’mon. Everybody knows God’s eyes are brown :)”

The colors are false. The real coloring looks kind of bloodshot. The color shown on the link is the actual colors though they are somewhat too intense.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000828.html

[BobS]

Applying any physical attributes to God is stupid. And likely self-promotional in some way. I saw this picture before. It's a picture of what was there 700 years ago.

For once, I would like to see a picture of things inside a whole different GALAXY. Just to see what was happening there billions of years ago. Of course they are far away in space in time right now then we observe them just now.

[Rebelbase]

“The real coloring looks kind of bloodshot.”

I never contemplated that God was a stoner.

[shibumi]

Now that is funny.

[Joiseydude]

URL please

[mylife]

That does make a cool desktop!

[jwparkerjr]

I remember of poster from way back in 1972 that showed the Big Blue Marble image of Earth with the caption, “Earth, this is God. I’ve found a buyer. I need you out in 30 days!”

I made one of my own on several occasions but someone always talks me out of it. My love is doing large format prints. My wife thinks I’m a bubble off plumb for getting so much delight in poster sized prints, but that’s just my thing. She’s pretty tolerant, seeing that my hang up could be worse, much worse!

[allmendream]

[Faith65]

bookmark

[prayerfullywaiting]

God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance...

[Mr_Moonlight]

I’ve always thought the earth could be a neutron or proton or electron orbiting around a single atom making the universe one being. God lives in us and we live in Him.

If that were so, then God's Creation would be what you just described as well as Microsoft systems and the Democrats ....

(sorry, couldn't resist, j/k :)

[Centurion2000]

“The real coloring looks kind of bloodshot.”

I never contemplated that God was a stoner.

Platypus ... case closed.

[Professional Engineer]

The Griping Eye.

[prayerfullywaiting]

He has bloodshot eyes because He is weeping...

[Centurion2000]

He has bloodshot eyes because He is weeping...

Or really really pissed off.

[Viking2002]

I'll load it after I get tired of my current one:

[jwparkerjr]

re: URL please

Oops, my bad. Sorry. I got so busy playing with the image I forgot to post a link.

When you get to the actual download page you will get an error saying the image can't be displayed because of an error. Not to be discouraged. I did a right-click and then a save as of the jpeg file and it worked just fine. I have the file and will put it on my server if you find you can't get it for some reason. It's about 9 megs.

Hi Res Eye of God

[Joiseydude]

Thank you

[KevinDavis]

[Rome2000]

That is awesome.

[sauropod]

That was a good book.

[jwparkerjr]

I just did the 20x30 print on glossy paper and it's breathtaking, the only word to describe it. I am going to find a scripture to match with it and then mat and frame the image and verse.

[Joiseydude]

Unfortunately I caan not get the picture. All I get for both the small and larger size is a box with a red Z in it in the upper left hand corner of the where the picture should be. When I right click on the photo I don’t get, “save this picture” as a choice.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s definitely a non-canon Enterprise. Not from the new film, is it ?

[Victoria Delsoul]

It is, indeed.

Thanks!

[adorno]

That is a great image, but why is it news now?

Images of the Helix nebula have been around for a long time.

http://www.hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2003/11/

[cookcounty]

"....The Eye of God..........700 light years from the Sun, "

Wow, that's a l-o-o-o-ng way!! It's getting harder and harder for an atheist to stick a finger in His eye!

[reagan_fanatic]

I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I dont need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind