At 186,000 miles a second, light travels a long way in one year. Hard to imagine something as big as 50,000 light years in diameter.
This Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - is officially called M104. It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.
Nebula NGC 2392, called Eskimo because it looks like a face surrounded by a furry hood. The hood is, in fact, a ring of comet-shaped objects flying away from a dying star. Eskimo is 5,000 light years from Earth.
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I'm so glad this small portion of God's creation is beyond the reach of the powers that be, left in it's pure form.
Who knows what they'd have done to it by now? Maybe the same thing they're trying to do to us?
Wow. I'm with you on that Kalena.
Hate to spoil the party, but it's just a matter of time. The powers that be are trying to figure out ways to weaponize space.
It's really scary what they have in mind for the future.
But, dude, nothing's supposed to be older than 6000 years, remember?
How could anything be 50,000 light-years across?
Axinar said...
But, dude, nothing's supposed to be older than 6000 years, remember?
remember? ...
Remember what?
Please stop trying to put time constraints on God.
always has been.
always will be.
-jasai
Playing God?
One glaring point i'd invite either side of the theist/non-theist camps to address,which is, after all, the ultimate question:
Theist: So where did god come from?
(always been there, no beginning, no end)
Non-theist: Where did the stuff that collected and caused the big bang come from?
(always been there, no beginning, no end.
Great. Can we stop bickering now and face the real issues?
i have no answer. i posit neither does anyone else, so all the current posturing is entertaining, but ultimately pointless -- from both sides of the argument.
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