What's out there in the vastness of space.

Have you ever looked up into the star studded sky at night and wondered what was out there.  In the photo by NASA's Hubble, taken of a small section of sky that appears to be empty to the naked eye, revealed no less than 10,000 Galaxies.   When you consider that our own Milky Way Galaxy, is 100,000 light years in diameter, then this photo adds a whole new dimension to our thinking.  If we could travel at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, then it would take us 100,000 years to travel from edge to edge of the Milky Way.  

Forget about visiting our nearest neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, which is 2.5 million light years away.  At present, a journey to Pluto, which is at the extremity of our Solar System, would take about 23 years and 100 day's, in a Space Shuttle.  Unless there really is a "star gate".  Smile. 

I realize I am going to be treading on some traditional toes, but the idea that all of this started with a big bang is amazing to me.  The theory states that a big explosion happened several billion years ago and out of it came the universe with billions of stars, planets and galaxies. All this structure and organization from an explosion.  Usually an explosion causes disorder and destruction, but planets and suns are round.  Hard to believe they were the result of an explosion.  On the other hand, meteors are jagged and odd shaped, because they are the remnants of planet collisions and explosions. Go figure. 

The orbit of the Earth round the sun, gives us a 24 hour day and a 365 day year.   The sun and moon's gravitational pull, control Earth's ocean tides and weather patterns.   Gravity prevents the atmosphere from being sucked into the vacuum of space. Earth's atmosphere is in two sections.  The lower part, called the Troposphere and is 6 to 10 miles high which is our breathable air and where all of Earth's weather happens.   The upper atmosphere is called the Stratosphere, and is 5 to 8 miles high and contains the Ozone layer, which filters harmful solar radiation like UV rays.  It is formed from the action of Solar Radiation on the Oxygen in the Stratosphere.  Without the Ozone layer, we would all die from skin cancer.  Is this the result of a Big Bang? ... Amazing. 

How could such detail come out of a chaotic explosion.  This explosion suddenly created all the laws of science and physics, that allows us to calculate the trajectory of a space craft for an eight month journey to Mars, and land a one ton vehicle gently on it's surface, within a 20 mile radius.  See NASA's Curiosity

The explosion resulted in the formation of atoms with their central nucleus of protons and neutrons and the orbiting electrons, so tiny that we need an electron microscope to view them.  The protons and neutrons are made up of combinations of quarks and gluons.  Not to mention the neutrino, which has almost zero mass, and is so small, it can pass through a block of lead without touching any atoms.  

The theory suggests that this Big Bang had enough material to create the billions of stars, planets and dust contained in the millions of galaxies, some of which are shown in the photo above.   It does not make sense to me. Is there a scientist that can explain this to me? Please.

There are so many educated people who believe all this was a cosmic accident.   The universe is so ordered and structured, that if the Big Bang is correct, it must have been started by someone highly intelligent and powerful.  Could that be God almighty.  The creation now sounds plausible ... right?    

Another beautiful Galaxy NGC 7090

A view of the galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is viewed edge-on from the Earth, so it is not possible to see the spirals.   It is approximately 30 million light years from our Sun.  Which means we are looking at what this looked like 30 million light years ago. 

According to scientists, the pink throughout the galaxy indicates the presence of hydrogen.   If that is true, and I have no reason to doubt it,  my question is how did that come out of a big bang. 

Hubble's big bang theory, that is so widely accepted by today's scientists,  simply does not explain the vastness of gas and solid material that would be required to make this galaxy and all the millions more.

I personally believe that if they were to take the big bang out of their thinking and embrace divine design, scientific knowledge would increase exponentially.   The whole of the universe is full of amazingly complex physics that could hardly come from a random accident in the form of the "big bang theory"     Let's get real for a moment.   An explosion results in chaos nor organization.   Planets orbiting around suns orbiting around a central point in a galaxy, orbiting around, only God knows what, can hardly be caused from an explosion.  

Consider this ... a small planet explodes and leaves a mess of jagged asteroids floating in a neat orbit around the sun, between Mars and Jupiter.   Unlike their neighbors, almost perfectly round planets also orbiting the sun.  If this was the work of a big bang, it certainly was able to sculpture beautiful symmetry and organization.     No, there is something desperately wrong with the "big bang theory"  

Taking this thought one step further.    If this Galaxy is 30 million light years away from our Sun, how far is it away from the so called "big bang" location.  Let's just assume for this argument, that our Sun was the origin of the "big bang", and that the rate of expansion from the ground zero, was the speed of light (not), that would mean it took 30 million light years to get to it's present position, based on Hubble's theory of an expanding universe.    

Anyway you slice it, the big bang theory is so full of holes, it should have sunk already.  

See the full report here.  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/ngc7090.html 

EARTH - ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN THE UNIVERSE.

EARTH - ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN THE UNIVERSE.

A Stunning Time-lapse photography of cities, aurora, lightning and other sights ass seen from the International Space Station orbiting the earth.

All of us live on earth daily, without giving much thought to where we are and how fragile a speck of dust we are in the vastness of the universe   This short video, compliments of NASA, gives us a space view of earth and will stimulate your imagination.    

Can you imagine, what it would be like to have a similar space view of other planets.   That will not be too far in the distant future.  NASA is already preparing for landing human's on Mars and our Moon over the next decade and a half.

How amazing is our sun.

The image is from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and shows half million mile long, whip-like solar filament, which is a cooler cloud of material that held above the sun's surface by magnetic forces.  extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun’s surface.

It is 109 times larger than earth.  You could put about 1 million earth's inside the sun. But if you could crush the earth into granules, you could fit approximately 1.3 million earths into the sun. 

There is so much pressure and heat in the core of the Sun that nuclear fusion takes place: hydrogen is changed to helium.   Nuclear fusion creates heat and photons (light). The sun's surface is about 6,000 Kelvin, which is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit (5,726 degrees Celsius). The amount of solar heat and light is enough to light up Earth's days and keep our planet warm enough to support life.

The Tarantula Nebula

As seen by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, it is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud which is one of our neighboring galaxies about 170,000 light-years away from Earth and is about 650 light-years in diameter. 

One of the brightest known nebula's, it containing numerous clouds of dust and gas and two bright star clusters.

The energy coming from it is center accounts for the brightness of the Nebula.  According to astronomers, the nebula is so bright that if it were only 1,000 light-years from Earth, it would cast a shadow the planets of our solar system.

Panorama view of Tarantula Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this panoramic view of the Tarantula nebula.   The bright area is called "30 Doradus" and is considered to be a star-forming region. The differing colors between the two photo's is because of the use of certain filters Hubble used in the photo on the left.    The green areas would normally appear red.   

The vastness of space is mind boggling.

It is mind boggling indeed, when you consider that this photo is of a body that is 650 light years from side to side.  According to metric-conversions.org that works out to be 3,821,106,601,811,465 miles in diameter.   As you can see, it's hard to even visualize the vastness of this distance.  This is contained in a larger galaxy.  Our own milky way galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter which is 587,862,554,124,840,832 miles, or 587.9 quadrillion miles.    

Above is another photo captured by astronomer Dr. Robert Fosbury of the
European Space Agency, using 100 photo's taken with special filters
and merged using a special program and several computers. 

Galaxies similar to the Milky Way.

This picture shows four galaxies which look similar to the Milky Way,  the closest being 55 million light years away.  

• NGC 3953 (top left) is 55 million light years away and 95000 light years in diameter.
• NGC 7723 (top right) is 80 million light years away with a diameter of 90000 light years.
• NGC 5970 (bottom left) is 105 million light years away and 85000 light years in diameter.
• NGC 7329 (bottom right is even further at a distance of 140 million light years but it is larger with a diameter of 140000 light years.

The nearest Galaxy to the Milky Way is Andromeda which is 2.5 million light years away.