Hubble's View Of The Universe [Part 6]

Hubble's View Of The Universe [Part 6 of 10]

THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE

Hubble works on the same principle as the first reflecting telescope built in the 1600s by Isaac Newton. Light enters the telescope and strikes a concave primary mirror, which acts like a lens to focus the light. The bigger the mirror, the better the image.

In Hubble, light from the primary mirror is reflected to a smaller secondary mirror in front of the primary mirror, then back through a hole in the primary to instruments clustered behind the focal plane (where the image is in focus).

THE UNIVERSE

Hubble's longest exposures are like a core sample of the universe, recording galaxies at many different distances. This is one of the deepest core samples ever taken. It shows a few nearby stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The rest of the objects are distant galaxies, extending from 1 billion to over 10 billion light-years away.

STARS

Stars live and die over the course of millions to billions of years. It is unusual to see changes in individual stars. To learn more about them, we must piece together snapshots of stars at different life stages — from birth to death.

The birth, life, and rebirth of stars is an ongoing process in the universe. The byproducts of this process include planets and the elements that make life possible.

GALAXIES

Galaxies come in diverse shapes and sizes. NGC 4414 — which is located about 62 million light-years away — is an example of a spiral galaxy. As with most spirals, the central region of NGC 4414 contains primarily older, yellow and red stars. The outer spiral arms are considerably bluer due to ongoing formation of young, blue stars.

The stars form a flat disk that circles the nucleus — a disk we see tilted, so it doesn't appear flat. Spiral galaxies like NGC 4414 display beautiful spiral arms made up of millions of young stars.

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[faab007]

@mikilavush If that's your definition of your God then yes I do say he does not exist.To me the whole idea of a God is just a easy way to explain things and does not lead us to new discoveries,certainly effective when people did not have science and it certainly gives people hope in bad times but that still doesn't make it true at all and certainly doesnt any scriptures related to it.But there's no point for me explaining this to you, you can stick to your own views,was only pointing out gravity

[mikilavush]

@faab007 ~ By saying that gravity alone is the universal cause, you indeed did mean that the universe was not miraculously created in 6 days 6245 years ago and that therefore the biblical God does not exist. To many, however, God is real inner spiritual experience. As a continuous act of God's ruling will, gravity can be relative due to how God in microcosmos and macrrocosmos wants different things to move, which means that things like dark matter and dark energy can be but scientific fiction.

[faab007]

@mikilavush Just for the record I'm not disproving God here anywhere, only was I pointing out that gravity is responsible for the structures you see in the cosmos. Also are you saying that God could just adjust gravity to his will ? And no science does not disprove Gods but the lack of evidence for any does make the God hypothesis very unlikely

[mikilavush]

@faab007 ~ To me gravity is not a dead natural force but it is an expression of God's omnipotent will. God the Omnipresent rules and moves everything mostly in harmony with natural laws but not necessarily always. The power of God's will which science call gravity is proportional to mass in for instance solar system, but in a number of microcosmic and macrocosmic circumstances it is just what it is. Thus by saying that gravity creates everything, science does not prove that God does not exist.

[faab007]

@mikilavush I'm an atheist but that doesn't even matter. We actually know what shaped those structures, it's called gravity and we actually do have proof for that unlike any religion has proof for anything. Go science and reason!

[mikilavush]

@faab007 ~ You mean you are a naturalist? You might even be a secret antichrist who by denying God tries to provoke Christians to argue with you so that you can weaken them with all kinds of reasoning against Christianity, but I as a Christian should not argue with anyone, and I do not think that words can prove anything basically about the origin of the universe. However, for the sake of others who read comments here, I can answer you here below, not to prove anything but to confess my belief.

[mikilavush]

@faab007 ~ God is eternal, endless and omnipotent Divine Light, Spirit, Consciousness, Intelligence, Love. God has no beginning and no end, since he is always inevitable. God is, because on one hand absolute nonexistence is impossible and on the other hand something not omnipotent does not have power to exist by itself. Only God exists. He transforms himself into all kinds of matter and energies. Also humans are made out of Divine Light but can be destroyed by God if they choose to disobey God.

[faab007]

@mikilavush nature you mean

[mikilavush]

Magnificent cosmic art of God, and relatively fine music. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to add this video to my channel`s favourites.

[swsk117]

relly big