The Beauty of The Final Frontier

I am always amazed at the photos that are published of things out in space. So much beauty that we have never seen before, will not see with our own eyes in reality while we live and breathe here on earth. I think about the vastness of space and ponder what God created, what He sees, what He sustains every second of every day - and we are totally unaware of it.

I sometimes wonder what beauties there are inside my human body, too. Microscopic worlds that we are totally unaware of, will never know, yet God in His wisdom and creativity, made them for His own enjoyment and to sustain our human lives.

So much we do not know.


Explanation: These two nebulae are cataloged as M27 (left) and M76, popularly known as The Dumbbell and the Little Dumbbell. Not intended to indicate substandard mental prowess, their popular names refer to their similar, dumbbell or hourglass shapes. Both are planetary nebulae, gaseous shrouds cast off by dying sun like stars, and are similar in physical size, at a light-year or so across. In each panel, the images were made at the same scale, so the apparent size difference is mostly because one is closer. Distance estimates suggest 1,200 light-years for the Dumbbell compared to 3,000 light-years or more for the Little Dumbbell. These deep, narrow-band, false-color images show some remarkably complex structures in M27 and M76, highlighting emission from hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms within the cosmic clouds. From: Astronomy Photo of the Day, December 17, 2008