Indescribable

Grab a drinking straw. Walk outside on a clear starry night. Pick a blank space in the sky (no stars) and look through the straw. What do you see?

Nothing, right. How fun was that?

Enter the image below, which has been coined the ‘Hubble Ultra Deep Field”.

When the experts zoomed in on a similar sized spot with a powerful telescope, what do you think they saw? More stars? Nope. Just 1,000’s of GALAXIES. In fact, the experts tell us this one image boasts somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 GALAXIES.

(You need to click on the image and zoom in to really appreciate it!)

I suspect there isn’t a scale we can adequately use to try and imagine the vastness of space and how minuscule we (humanity) really are in comparison with it. We’re overwhelmed just planning a trip to the moon. Another planet in our solar system is just out of reach – perhaps we’ll visit Mars once in my lifetime. The idea of visiting another star is the stuff of sci-fi novels. Exploring a galaxy belongs to Star Wars fans. But millions, perhaps billions of galaxy’s?

Psalm 19:1-4 (NIV) says it best.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words, no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

Wow.

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