The Universe

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I have always been fascinated by the expanse and the beauty of the Universe. These pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope, give us a closer look into the far reaches of space to help us get a better understanding of how stars are formed and how galaxies come together and even in some cases, interact with eachother. What is amazing to me are the distances between stars and galaxies to even our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It is more evidentiary proof of our Divine Creator. He just keeps blowing our minds the more we uncover and discover the incredible workmanship of the Universe.

The above picture: This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters. The new image allows astronomers to better distinguish between the stars and super star clusters created in the collision of two spiral galaxies.

Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of stars, swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by gravity. The pair, known collectively as Arp 87, is one of hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby universe.Arp 87 is in the constellation Leo, the Lion, approximately 300 million light-years away from Earth.

With light traveling at 186,000 miles per second, it flashes through space

11,160,000 miles per minute,

669,600,000 miles in an hour,

16,070,400,000 miles in a day,

112,492,800,000 miles in a week and

5,849,625,600,000 miles in a year.

That's almost 6 trillion miles in a year's time. In the picture above it says that the Arp 87 constellation is 300 million light-years away......go figure! Smile!

The Spiral Galaxy

The Crab Nebula