One Photo Worth a Billion Stars

Photo (yes, that’s a photo, not a painting!) of the Orion Nebula, taken via NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. A nebula is a cloud of dust and gas. Orion is an emission nebula, a nebula that emanates the light of the stars within it in a splash of colors. Although Orion is 1600 light years away, it is so bright that it is visible to the naked eye (one “star” of the Orion constellation).

“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him?” Psalm 8:3-4

“What may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.” Romans 1:19-20

An interactive version (zoom in, zoom out, etc.) of the Orion photo is here: Hubble. (Good luck, though, I think the Hubble site’s server is being overwhelmed with hits).