Another night, another billion candles in the sky.
The Perseids – summer rain. August next go to a dark sky and soak.
3,600 years after Abram looked up, Galileo found the rings of Saturn. God hid his cosmic treat, within eventual reach.
The universe may have begun with a bang, but forget the bombardier and it may cease with a “dang.”
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the subatomic particles proclaim the work of his hand. Looking in inspires a hymn as much as looking out.
God created the universe to be knowable, predictable and orderly — think the eliptical orbit of Mars. When we organize, this is our opus dei.
40,000 tons of space dust falls each year on the earth. What else aren’t you noticing?
Those who fall in love with themselves fall in love with something very small and only know the emptiness of impersonal space. Those who fall in love with the creator, fall in love with a personal maker and skip happily into their father’s backyard to play among the stars.
Hubble noted that the farther the galaxies are from us, the faster they fly from us. This principle also applies to relationships. The further we fly from each other emotionally, the faster we fly from each other relationally.
Too much looking down and the seven wonders of the northern sky go unnoticed – the Orion nebulae, the Andromeda galaxy, the Hercules globular, the open clusters in Perseus, the ring nebulae in the Lyra, Alberio, and the Veil nebulae. I command you in the name of all that is holy and true; go get a telescope and see them before you die.
Parabolic mirrors, Nagler lenses and equatorial mounts, the weapons of pursuit are as often as fun as the prey – clusters, nebulae and galaxies.
The universe is calibrated for life. It looks as if someone did some very precise measuring early on.
All the stars and galaxies account for less than 1% of the universe. The unseen? Larger than we think.
