Posted on 11/11/2023 12:05:25 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: This broad, luminous red arc was a surprising visitor to partly cloudy evening skies over northern France. Captured extending toward the zenith in a west-to-east mosaic of images from November 5, the faint atmospheric ribbon of light is an example of a Stable Auroral Red (SAR) arc. The rare night sky phenomenon was also spotted at unusually low latitudes around world, along with more dynamic auroral displays during an intense geomagnetic storm. SAR arcs and their relation to auroral emission have been explored by citizen science and satellite investigations. From altitudes substantially above the normal auroral glow, the deep red SAR emission is thought to be caused by strong heating due to currents flowing in planet Earth's inner magnetosphere. Beyond this SAR, the Milky Way arcs above the cloud banks along the horizon, a regular visitor to night skies over northern France.
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Beautiful photo.
The SAR and the Milky Way:
Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince (sar) hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
"In Germany the modern Milch Strasse is the translation of our best-known title; while it has long been, and popularly is even now, Jakobs Strasse and Jakobs Weg, Jacob’s Road; as the Belt of Orion is his Staff lying alongside the road. And it has been still further associated with that patriarch as his Ladder."
the Belt of Orion is his Staff lying alongside the road...
Which is another funny thing about MIB, of Orion's Belt being "just these three stars", because in Norse mythology they represented Frigg's spinning wheel, distaff.
Spinning all the clouds (stars) in the galaxy.
As an adjective, the term distaff is used to describe the female side of a family. The corresponding term for the male side of a family is the "spear" side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distaff
I think it's worth mentioning because of how it all weaves together, with Rachel "the mother of all Israel" buried alongside the road.
“Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades?
Can you loose the cords of Orion?"
Both the Pleiades Cluster and Orion's cord, or belt, appear from earth to be gravitationally bound, and God here makes the fact-claim that indeed they are--four millennia ago, long before refracting or reflecting or space telescopes were even a gleam in Galileo's eye.
Of course, modern telescopes confirmed God's claim. He still scores 100%.
“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight”
Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning”
We are in the peanut gallery, redeemed sinners watching other whose sins and foibles and heroics God recorded for our edification, admonishment and encouragement. Not many suspected they would be outed this way--but our Lord assured one sobbing woman that her act of worship would be remembered always. She has her own wing in the Faith Hall of Fame.
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