Posted on 04/05/2021 4:20:27 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,000 years ago that star exploded in a supernova leaving the Veil Nebula. At the time, the expanding cloud was likely as bright as a crescent Moon, remaining visible for weeks to people living at the dawn of recorded history. Today, the resulting supernova remnant, also known as the Cygnus Loop, has faded and is now visible only through a small telescope directed toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus). The remaining Veil Nebula is physically huge, however, and even though it lies about 1,400 light-years distant, it covers over five times the size of the full Moon. The featured picture is a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of six images together covering a span of only about two light years, a small part of the expansive supernova remnant. In images of the complete Veil Nebula, even studious readers might not be able to identify the featured filaments.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
Where did all the energy come from to have created all those stars and galaxies?
According to Oliver Wendell Jones of Bloom County fame to begin with there was this giant cosmic burrito....
That’s the $60,000 question. Some people say it all came from a tiny compressed point and the universe expanded out from that. Like blowing up a big balloon.
It comes from the snap of God’s fingers
Love Bloom County and I’d believe that over anything an evolutionist would say; then too, where did that blob come from that went blooie?
Then that begs the question where did that compressed point come from? Scientists say that matter cannot be created nor destroyed.
Would have had to create it first then He’d snap his fingers.
I dunno. I could have been a rupture or tear with a new universe ballooning out. What’s the other side of the opening? Could be a brick wall. I know, I know, what’s behind the brick wall?
bttt
Not all scientists.
Some believe that some particles wink in and out of existence.
I think it is part of string theory, but I can’t remember for sure.
I thought it an odd bit of theory.
Yeah, weird that.
No. From the IDEA(L) in His mind.
C’mon man — windmills and solar panels.
Please explain how you know what happened 7000 years ago?
Please let us know because no one was around at the time.
Once again they push a theory as fact with no evidence.
The same as the unproven and unprovable big bang....
Man? Well I guess it’s just an expression.
It’s become a rather popular one.
After all: ‘You know, the ‘thing’...’
:-)
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