We are located towards the middle and outer edge - nowhere near the center of the galaxy.
Posted on 01/07/2020 7:24:53 AM PST by C19fan
A stunning new panoramic image of the Milky Way is revealing all sorts of fresh insight.
The image shows the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, stretching about 600 light-years across, and reveals never-before-seen details of the Arches cluster, which is densest star cluster in our galaxy. And that bright white splotch in the middle of the image? That's the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, which is illuminated on all sides.
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‘Ether view, points to a very large God.
who was created by whom...?
put down the telescope (camera), turn around, and look in the mirror....there we are :)
In back of the camera...
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.
We are located towards the middle and outer edge - nowhere near the center of the galaxy.
When I look at pictures of space I then remember that there is space beyond even that space. Then I think of time and how it never ends. To me the meaning of the word eternity is one that I can’t even grasp.
Then I look at the little space around me with birds flying, and bushes moving in the breeze and I realize how small my space is.
Yes — God is awesome.
Reminds of the joke with the punch line, “You have to bring your own dirt.”
Why would something that exists outside of space and time have to have been ‘created’?
American astronomer Carl Sagan once stated that “there are more stars in our Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth”. The question left people surprised at how big the universe is considering that the sand along the earth’s coastlines amounts to trillions of tones. There is no definite way to determine the exact number of stars in the universe and the number of sand grains along the shores but mathematical estimations can be made.
How Many Stars Are There in the Universe?
Finding the answer to the number of stars in our universe involves generating a mathematical problem of - dare we say it - cosmic proportions. The Milky Way Galaxy has between 100 and 400 billion stars. There are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe with some researchers placing the figure at about 500 billion. The lowest number of stars that can be found in the universe is ten sextillion (10 billion billion) and 200 sextillions at the higher end. These are huge numbers that are incomparable to anything on earth.
How Many Grains of Sand Are There on Earth?
A single grain of sand found on the beach is half a millimeter in diameter. Twenty grains make up about a centimeter, and 8,000 make up one cubic centimeter. To calculate the volume of sand, you need to determine the amount of coastline that consists of sandy beaches. Dr. Jason Marshall “The Math Dude” estimates the volume of the beaches to be 700 trillion cubic meters. Mathematically, the figure amounts to five sextillion grains of sand. The mathematician suggests that this is just an estimate and the number could change by a factor of two to a low of 2.5 and a high of 10 sextillions.
Conclusion
A mathematical conclusion can be made that the least number of stars is equal to the highest number of sand grains. However, it is likely that there are five to ten times most stars than sand on the beaches. In 2016 researchers, observing images from the Hubble Space Telescope stated that there could be more than 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, which is ten times more than the highest number expected. This is in addition to the fact that the entire universe cannot be observed by any telescope on the earth.
So, what’s beyond the farthest, last star, wherever it is? Do you just bump into a wall?
So beyond even our broadest imagination! I suppose there are also planets out there.
And what is beyond the universe that we can see? Boggles the mind.
So beyond even our broadest imagination! I suppose there are also planets out there.
And what is beyond the universe that we can see? Boggles the mind.
That’s the problem with all of these estimates of how many galaxies and planets might be out there - it’s all based on the Universe that we can currently observe, and from which observations we can extrapolate.
We’ll improve in our ability to see as time goes on; but
we’re never going to be able to observe all of it. It will just keep on going and going, beyond our ability to observe, forever.
(That’s the sort of infinitude that God - by His nature - specializes in, and that we will never be able to wrap our little brains around, at least while we’re in this flesh :-)
Our earth is far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy next to a small unregarded yellow sun.
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