Star Afar

 Star Afar

How many times have people looked up into the night sky and wondered just how massive is the light array they see. Maybe they thought; how far away are they, how many and could we ever go there. No where inn God’s word do I find it written that the heavenly bodies visible from earth were ever meant for human kind to visit. At modern rocket speeds even Methuselah did not live long enough to reach our closest star; excluding our sun. Heaven is where God resides but there is no evidence that it is within the universe ha named heaven. Rather, I suppose all we see and know of the creation of which we are a part is held in the palm of God’s hand.

Genesis 1:1”In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.(7) And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. (8) And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. (10) And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. (14) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: (15) And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. (16) And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. (17) And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, (18) And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.”

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical body known to harbor life. About 29% of Earth's surface is land consisting of continents and islands. The remaining 71% is covered with water. God made the moon to orbit earth every 27.32 days at a distance out of of 238,855 miles. From the moon center to it surface averages 1,079 miles. Moon Gravity is about one fifth of that on earth. From the moon to earth is a distance of 238,855 miles. The moon reflects sunlight to light the earth at night.

The Earth, revolves around the Sun, with a complete revolution taking 365.25 days. The Sun is roughly at the center of the orbit. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The sun's surface is about 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit. These heat waves or sun rays traveling through space at 186,000 miles per second takes, about 8 minutes and 19 seconds to reach earth. It whirls, spins and jimmy dances some 92,955,828 miles from earth. The sun is the star at the center of our Solar System. The earth is held in orbit around the sun by Newtons Law of Relativity. Likewise the earth and moon share this symbiotic relationship.

Our closes neighbor outside the Mickey Way Galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy, M31. I tis the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way. It is 2.5 million light years away. Traveling at the speed of light (not possible) but if it were a trip to M-31 would take 2,500,000 years of travel.

The galaxy we live in, the Milky Way, has between two and four hundred thousand million stars.

If you count all stars visible to the unaided eye, the entire sky contains some 9,000 stars. The milky way is an average sized galaxy with around 100–400 billion stars. The universe has around 100–1000 billion galaxies. Scientists estimate that there are between 30 and 70 billion trillion stars in the heavens.

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