Participants: Jim Burr
Series Code: HDS
Program Code: HDS000005A
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00:25 Welcome to Heavens Declare, I'm Jim Burr
00:28 and today, we are talking about the solar system, 00:32 we left off last program 00:35 talking about our earth and the planets 00:38 and we're gonna continue on with that 00:42 but the heavens declare, yes, 00:43 they sure do declare the glory of God, don't they? 00:46 We see the beautiful... This Hubble is just fantastic. 00:48 What the Hubble has shown us that we've never seen before. 00:53 And so our first graphic is going to be of Saturn. 01:00 You know, the rings of Saturn are incredibly beautiful. 01:04 Can you imagine waking up in the morning 01:06 and seeing a sunrise, 01:07 these rings would go up 50,000 miles, 01:09 can you imagine a sunrise rippling through rings 01:12 for 50,000 miles or a sunset rippling through space? 01:16 I'd like to show you that picture now, 01:18 that graphic now 01:19 of the beautiful picture of Saturn 01:21 and this is one 01:22 from the Hubble Space Telescope, 01:24 those rings about a 170,000 miles across, 01:28 Saturn about a billion miles away from us 01:31 in space, we have our solar system, 01:34 Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter 01:36 and then Saturn comes the next with the rings 01:38 but we've discovered that there are rings around other... 01:42 God apparently likes rings, 01:44 a spacecraft has now discovered rings around our sun, 01:47 with spacecraft rings around 01:49 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune 01:51 and rings around Betelgeuse, that's star, 01:54 it's a shoulder star in Orion, as you look at Orion, 01:56 it would be up in his, you know, his upper shoulder. 02:00 And with satellite, they've discovered 02:04 Betelgeuse has rings around. 02:06 It is like one of the biggest stars 02:08 we know about, in fact, 02:09 we're gonna show you an image of Betelgeuse a little bit, 02:13 it's like a billion miles in diameter. 02:16 If we put Betelgeuse where our sun is, 02:18 Mercury, Venus, Earth would all be going around 02:20 inside that star. 02:22 So would Mars, the asteroid belt, 02:25 so would Jupiter be inside the star Betelgeuse 02:30 and now they've discovered 02:31 and I don't have a picture of it. 02:33 I can't show you the picture 02:34 but they tell us they've discovered the rings 02:35 around Betelgeuse and the rings around Betelgeuse are so big, 02:40 they say that if you're gonna drive across here 02:43 with your automobile 02:45 at the rate of a thousand miles every day, 02:47 it'll take you like 40 million years 02:49 to drive across the rings 02:51 of Betelgeuse or about a light year across actually 02:54 and so we're gonna talk a little bit 02:56 about the sun 'cause... 02:59 How did the sun form all this energy from the sun? 03:02 We've got a clip coming up 03:03 showing some eruptions on the sun 03:05 and it's just amazing to see the eruptions of the sun. 03:12 We got eruptions going out... 03:16 Well, this telescope behind me actually is a solar scope 03:20 for looking at the sun, 03:22 now you don't wanna look at the sun 03:23 because you go blind, okay. 03:27 Galileo in fact, did go blind looking at the sun 03:31 and he sat in a closet in the dark 03:34 for a couple of weeks thinking 03:35 that his eyesight could be restored 03:37 but it never really changed, 03:40 so you don't ever wanna look at the sun 03:41 as you got a special instrument 03:43 and that is a special and hence with... 03:45 I've had this truth but a solar scope 03:47 for about 30 years 03:48 and we look most every day at the sun. 03:51 I've seen eruptions coming off the sun 03:53 and reach to the moon, 03:55 quarter of a million miles these eruptions, 03:57 they typically, they don't stay around too long but as, 04:01 you know, a true flare actually is gone in 15 minutes 04:07 and fact is some times we'll look at the sun 04:09 and we'll see a... 04:11 If the sun's here, 04:12 okay, we see a puff of cloud above the sun 04:14 and I didn't see the flare go up 04:16 but the flare shoots up 400 miles a second 04:19 and then it'll sometimes leave a cloud, 04:21 the flare's disappeared, you don't see the connection 04:24 but you see this cloud 04:25 which will dissipate over a couple hours. 04:26 I'd like to show you that roll now, 04:29 the rupturing on the sun 04:31 and tremendous eruptions on the sun, 04:36 plasma going up there and we're fortunate 04:39 that eruption like this was not headed our way 04:43 but headed off to the side of the sun 04:45 rather than headed directly at us 04:47 because these eruptions headed our way 04:49 could cause serious problems on Earth 04:52 and back in the 1800s, we had a solar flare 04:57 that actually melted down telegraph lines. 05:01 In 1986, I think it was in Quebec, 05:05 a solar flare melted the power grid down 05:08 and we haven't had any really big ones headed our way, 05:11 there was one headed to Mars a while back 05:14 and in other words, 05:16 if it's coming straight off the surf... 05:18 Is that the sun is headed our way, 05:19 if it comes off on the sides, 05:21 it doesn't hit us with the intensity 05:24 and, of course, that's what causes 05:25 the northern lights, 05:28 charged particles from the sun ionizing the hydrogen atoms 05:31 in the upper atmosphere 05:32 causes beautiful northern lights, 05:34 I was raised in Minnesota where we, you know, 05:37 we're quite familiar with northern lights. 05:40 In fact, I've been to Alaska a couple times 05:43 and flying on night to Alaska, you'll see the northern lights 05:47 but these eruptions on the sun are just incredible. 05:53 And if they, you know, 05:54 we have today so much electronics, 05:57 so much spacecraft, you know, your GPS as your satellites, 06:01 if we get one coming our way, straight at us big solar flare, 06:06 we could have some serious issues 06:09 but let's get back to how did the sun... 06:12 Where'd this all come from? 06:14 You know, evolution says 06:15 in the beginning of the universe like, 06:17 this one book I have, Dr. Pekoni says 06:20 that the universe began and it was a dot as small 06:24 as a millionth of a millionth of a millionth, 06:28 the size of the smallest Adam and that's pretty small 06:31 and he says it was, the temperature was like 06:33 a million, million, million, million degrees. 06:37 And this is how you could rationalize a universe 06:41 without a creator I guess because he goes on to say 06:45 there's this tremendous energy, you saw the eruptions, 06:47 120,000 trillion tons of matter 06:50 blasting off the sun, where'd that come from? 06:51 From a little dot smaller than Adam, 06:54 but here's how your logic works, he said, 06:58 "Well, there's this tremendous energy in the universe, 07:01 it's coming from all of the stars 07:02 but there's also tremendous 07:05 negative gravitational potential energy, 07:09 so we got positive energy and negative energy 07:11 which cancel each other 07:13 and therefore the universe could create itself 07:16 and Stephen Hawkings would say the same thing. 07:19 Stephen Hawking says, 07:21 "Yes, the universe can create itself." 07:23 The Bible says, "In the beginning, 07:26 by the word of the Lord were the heavens made. 07:28 In the beginning, God created the heavens 07:29 and the earth, a hundred billion stars." 07:32 And, you know, how did the sun form? 07:36 It's a joke, folks, it is a joke. 07:39 How evolution says our sun came into being 07:43 and they would tell you as I said, 07:45 we have started with a little dot 07:46 and then all of a sudden we had 07:47 all this hydrogen gas in the universe, 07:49 trillions maybe, 12 trillion miles across, 07:52 this hydrogen gas 07:53 and somehow gravity started pulling gas together. 07:57 Well, check out Boyle's gas laws. 07:59 We know that gas expands to fill its container. 08:04 If I had a perfume bottle here 08:05 and I sprayed it and it wouldn't be long 08:07 and everybody in this building would smell it, 08:09 you see gas wants to expand to fill its container 08:12 but they say no gravity, gravity of what? 08:15 You know, what gravity? 08:17 Pull the gas together and it started spinning 08:20 and collapsing and spinning and collapsing, 08:22 spinning and collapsing, till gravity pulled this gas, 08:26 now if you remember, space is 450 below zero. 08:32 We have to get to 100 million degrees 08:38 for the hydrogen atoms to fuse together 08:41 to create the sun. 08:42 To get the sun to start, we need a 100, 200, you know, 08:45 150 million degrees. 08:47 And they call a space where it's 400 below zero 08:49 and a vacuum of space where gas would want to expand, 08:52 they say it all was pulled together by gravity, 08:54 till gravity got it so hot. 08:57 Our sun ignited, okay, 08:59 that's how the sun formed. 09:04 And so it's a joke. 09:09 I wanna just read a statement from one of the science book. 09:15 How did the first star appear 09:17 and what takes a star to make a star? 09:19 You got to have a star 09:20 before you can make a next star, right? 09:23 Folks, okay, here's what they say. 09:28 Scientists believe that the sun 09:31 and the solar system were formed 09:33 when a cloud of gas and dust in space 09:36 was disturbed, maybe, 09:38 by the explosion of a nearby star. 09:42 No, I thought we were trying to figure out 09:43 how the first star came, our sun came 09:46 and how the first star came but now they say, 09:48 "No, you got to have a star to make a star." 09:51 And so maybe, you know, 09:54 our sun formed by an explosion of a nearby star 09:58 called a Supernova. 10:03 Where did that star come from? 10:08 This explosion made waves in space. 10:12 I suppose like a wave on a lake. 10:15 The waves which usually... 10:18 is there a rock on a lake 10:19 and the waves go outward but they say 10:21 which made waves in space which squeezed. 10:28 Squeezed the cloud of gas... 10:30 Oh, you got a, in a vacuum, 10:32 you're gonna squeeze the gas together by waves. 10:37 Squeeze a cloud of gas and dust, 10:40 squeezing made the clouds start to collapse 10:44 as gravity pulled the gas and dust together 10:48 forming a solar nebula, okay? 10:52 Now, you know, you watch an ice skater on the ice, 10:55 what happens? 10:56 They're skating and all of a sudden 10:58 they stop spinning 10:59 and they pull their arms in, right? 11:00 They've clocked them at 308 and the fastest ice skater, 11:04 308 rpm revolutions a minute, 308 times a minute 11:09 and if you took 12 trillion miles of gas 11:11 and you pull it together with gravity 11:13 and it was spinning and condensing 11:14 and spinning and condensing, 11:16 the more it pulled itself together 11:18 the faster it's gonna go, you know, the ice skaters, 11:21 the more they pull their arms 11:23 and legs together, the faster they go. 11:24 I built lot of Physics. 11:27 So what would you expect if you looked at the sun? 11:30 You would expect the sun to be screaming, right? 11:32 Like the blades on a jet. 11:35 Folks, you can't even see the sun move. 11:40 I watched the sun through that telescope 11:42 over there, 11:44 the special scope, with a very special scope, 11:46 don't look at the sun unless you have a special scope 11:48 but we, for the last 20, 30 years, 11:51 I looked at the sun almost every day 11:53 and you can't even see it move. 11:58 I watched sunspots, they always appear on the right 12:01 and they're here today, next day, as your day goes by, 12:03 the earth spins, what? 12:05 They move that far 12:06 and next day, next day, next day, 12:08 it takes 14 days for the sunspots 12:11 to move across the sun, 12:12 it takes 28 days for the sun to spin 12:14 but if this theory, this idea, 12:16 this joke of how the sun formed... 12:19 It's a joke, folks, it is a joke. 12:22 They don't know how it formed, 12:25 the sun should be just screaming around 12:27 but it actually... 12:28 You'd have to drive a stick, you can't even see it move, 12:30 you'd have to drive a stick in the ground, 12:32 over 28 days to see it. 12:34 The earth is turning 28 times faster 12:37 and this is called the law of conservation 12:39 of angular momentum, if this collapse 12:42 and it was spinning, all of the planets 12:44 should be going the same way, 12:45 the moon should be going the same place. 12:46 We have moon spinning the wrong... 12:50 Planets spinning the wrong way, 12:52 Venus, Pluto, it's actually Uranus, I think, it's spinning, 12:58 on its edge spinning the wrong way 13:00 and evolution says, "Well, you know, 13:01 maybe something smashed 13:03 in to cause it to go the wrong way." 13:05 I think 20 some of the moons in the solar system 13:08 are spinning the wrong way. 13:09 So there's just so many problems 13:11 with evolution and the Big Bang, folks, 13:13 I mean, excuse me, but it is a joke. 13:16 It is an absolute joke. 13:20 So we have in the previous session, 13:23 we actually showed you a picture of our Sun, 13:28 Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Uranus and Neptune 13:32 but we didn't show you another sun, you know, 13:34 I mean, we can put a million earths 13:36 inside the sun, 13:37 okay, a million earths to fit inside the sun 13:41 but we didn't show you how our sun compares... 13:44 You know, our Sun is just kind of an average star, 13:46 nothing special about it. 13:48 It's just kind of a... 13:49 Every day, ho-hum average star, there's many stars 13:52 that are bigger than our sun, 13:53 many stars that are smaller than our sun. 13:58 And so we wanna show some of the bigger ones, 13:59 I told you a minute ago about Betelgeuse, 14:02 that's a billion miles in diameter. 14:03 So we have another graphic coming up 14:05 which will compare our sun with Arcturus, 14:09 so here we see our Arcturus, much larger than our sun 14:13 and you see the earth is gone, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus... 14:16 they're all gone on the screen, 14:18 I mean, Jupiter be the size of one pixel, 14:20 so here you see our sun so small 14:23 compared to Arcturus. 14:25 Arcturus, is talked about in the Bible 14:26 and we're gonna get to that in one of these programs 14:30 because Arcturus a runaway star and God asked Job, 14:33 "Can you guide Arcturus?" 14:34 You see also Pollux there, that's a Castor and Pollux 14:38 in the constellation of Gemini, that was our winter... 14:41 It's a winter star 14:43 and then Sirius which is also in the sky in the winter time, 14:47 it's just east of Orion 14:49 and so that's kind of... 14:51 but is Arcturus the biggest star? 14:53 No, we've got stars bigger, we've got another graphic 14:56 coming up showing bigger stars, Betelgeuse, 15:01 in this screen is, and Antares and... 15:06 So Betelgeuse, the one as I mentioned 15:08 was a billion miles in diameter. 15:09 When you look at this graphic, you don't even see our sun, 15:13 our sun has disappeared because it's so small 15:15 compared to these larger stars 15:18 and now Arcturus is dwarfed by Rigel, 15:23 Aldebaran and Betelgeuse and Antares, 15:26 these are all stars you can go out and see in the sky, 15:28 Rigel is in the constellation of Orion, it's just lower, 15:34 if you look at Orion to be on the lower right hand side 15:36 as you see it, Aldebaran, 15:38 that's in the constellation of Taurus, 15:40 the bull, which is just to the west of Orion 15:44 and Betelgeuse is in Orion 15:46 and Antares is a summer star very low in the sky. 15:50 It is quite a red star and I understand that 15:53 Antares in Latin means 'not mars.' 15:56 It turns out that people are often confusing 15:59 Antares with Mars because the color was similar, 16:02 Antares is quite reddish and it's low in the sky, 16:08 in the South actually for us in the northern hemisphere 16:11 and sometimes not too far from the orbit 16:15 where Mars would go. 16:16 Now we wanna go to the biggest star 16:18 we know about and compare it to our sun. 16:22 The biggest star we know about is Canis Majoris 16:25 and it is like 1.8 billion miles in diameter, 16:29 you'll see that our sun is just really dwarfed, 16:32 really, really small compared to Canis Majoris 16:36 and sun down there on the left 16:38 and a little piece of the slice of Canis Majoris 16:42 and often people when they sit 16:44 through these programs say, you know, I feel so small. 16:46 Why would God be interested in me, you know? 16:48 And we're told in Desire of Ages, 16:52 that the Lord is disappointed 16:53 when people place a low estimate upon themselves. 16:57 You know why? 16:58 Because he desires his chosen heritage 17:01 to value themselves 17:03 according to the price He has placed upon them. 17:06 The unspeakable gift, Christ, who left the glories of heaven, 17:09 the holiness of heaven, the beauties of heaven, 17:11 the worship of the angels, came down here 17:13 and didn't even have a pillow, 17:15 did you have a pillow last night? 17:17 You know, He gave up all of that, 17:20 the Bible says, He considered a place, 17:22 or having a place not to be desired 17:24 while you and I were lost. 17:26 And so the Lord is disappointed, 17:28 don't place a low estimate upon yourself, 17:30 the Lord is disappointed when His people 17:32 place a low estimate upon themselves. 17:34 He desires you. 17:36 His chosen heritage to value themselves 17:40 according to the price He has placed upon you. 17:42 He has... 17:43 Thanks be to God for the unspeakable gift. 17:46 We have another graphic coming up 17:47 of a cluster of stars in our Milky Way galaxy. 17:52 In our galaxy we have, you know, a 100 billion stars, 17:55 okay, and these stars are just all going around, 17:59 kind of, like the solar system, 100 billion stars. 18:02 But when we look at our galaxy, we see various things, 18:05 we see constellations. 18:06 Now a constellation would be a group of stars 18:09 you could make a stick figure about, 18:10 you could draw a stick figure like Orion or of the Big Dipper 18:14 and Hercules, some of these things. 18:17 So when we say a constellation, 18:19 we're talking about just a group of stars 18:21 that we see from earth and you could make an image, 18:25 we have 88, actually 88 constellations 18:28 and so our galaxy would be a conglomeration 18:31 of a 100 billion, 200 billion stars, 18:33 a constellation would be a group of stars 18:35 and then we also have these clusters. 18:38 We have open clusters 18:39 which have a hundreds of stars in them, 18:41 you know, blazing suns, 18:43 you know, our sun just a average star, 18:45 so we would see open clusters 18:47 like the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, 18:49 we see seven, there's 500 there. 18:52 We have the Double Cluster which is like two star cluster, 18:55 beautiful cluster, right up near Cassiopeia in the sky 18:58 and then we have these globs of stars, 19:00 they call them Globular Clusters 19:03 and it'd be millions of stars. 19:06 The Omega star cluster 19:08 is they believe about 10 million stars 19:11 and that is the biggest star cluster 19:14 that we know about. 19:17 We don't know about the ones we don't know about 19:19 but the Hubble has zoomed in on the Omega star cluster 19:22 and it just filled with the most beautiful colors, 19:26 stars of the most beautiful colors 19:28 and the Hubble zoomed in on that, 19:31 we're gonna show you a video clip in another series. 19:34 How these stars will move over the next 10,000 years? 19:38 But in Genesis 22:17, it says, 19:43 "As the host of heaven cannot be numbered 19:45 nor the sands of the sea measured, 19:47 so will I multiply 19:48 the descendants of David, my servant." 19:52 From the stars is a quotation from I think, Steps to Christ, 19:58 from the stars that in their trackless course 20:01 through space follow from age to age 20:04 their appointed path down to the minutest Adam. 20:09 The things of nature obey the creator's will, 20:13 not all the wisdom or skill of man 20:15 can produce life 20:16 in the smallest object of nature, 20:18 it is only through the life which God Himself has imparted 20:21 that either plant or animal can live 20:24 and it is interesting because during the French revolution, 20:27 you know, they persecuted the Christians, 20:29 they killed the Christians, they did everything they could 20:32 and the statement was made by the authorities, 20:36 we are going to burn your Bibles, 20:38 we're going to tear down your churches, 20:41 we're going to destroy everything 20:45 that reminds you of God and the people responded, 20:49 "but you will leave us the stars," 20:53 okay. 20:56 So when we... 20:57 We were talking about the galaxy, 20:58 the Milky Way galaxy and we have... 21:00 Well, they believe there's many galaxies 21:02 as there are stars in our Milky Way galaxy 21:05 and they think depending on which book you read, 21:07 some books have been saying for a long time, a 100 billion 21:10 and if you're in fact gonna count a 100 billion, 21:13 a one every second, 21:14 it would take you about 3,000 years 21:17 just to count them but other books you read say, 21:19 "Well, maybe the, you know, maybe there are 200 billion. 21:25 Maybe there are 300 billion, depends on which book you read 21:28 and the counting of the stars 21:32 are kind of a ballpark guess. 21:35 It really... 21:37 You look at the center of a galaxy 21:39 and you'll see just a maze of light, 21:42 we can't see the individual stars 21:44 in the core of the galaxy, in the heart of the galaxy 21:46 and yet we know 21:47 they're separate by trillions of miles. 21:50 So the point I was making 21:52 when it comes to counting the stars, 21:54 it's a ballpark guess, it's anybody's guess. 21:57 They can't count stars 21:58 in the outer part of their arms 22:00 where they can revolve, resolve individual stars 22:02 but to look at the core of a star so, 22:05 you know, I think they're... 22:07 Because they vary so much from book to book 22:09 as you read a 100 billion, 200 billion, 300 billion stars, 22:12 now when it comes to measuring the stars, the distances, 22:15 this is very interesting, people often ask, 22:17 "Well, how do we know the distances?" 22:19 It's my belief that they are a hundred times 22:22 better at measuring distances than they are at counting stars 22:27 and so how do we measure distances? 22:28 Well, we have some good ways of measuring distances 22:34 and let's say this table is the sun 22:37 and we know the earth goes around the sun 22:39 and so we know that certain time of the year, 22:42 the earth is gonna be over here 22:45 on this side of the sun, my right 22:47 and then six months later the earth's gonna be over here, 22:50 that's a 186 million mile baseline, 22:53 93 million miles to the sun here, 22:55 six months later, the sun's over there 22:57 at 93 million miles, well, so I can... 23:01 When I'm over here, I can look at this camera 23:03 and I have a baseline, a 186 million miles 23:05 and I have an angle. 23:08 We can triangulate and then six months later, 23:10 we'll be on that side of the sun 23:12 and we can get a triangulation 23:16 and measure the distance. 23:18 Now there comes a point where we don't... 23:20 That 186 million miles 23:22 does not really shift the angle, 23:25 it's a point which we reach 23:26 where we can't really measure that angle 23:28 because it doesn't move that much 23:30 but the stars behind, we can measure this star 23:33 but the one behind actually will shift 23:35 and so we can get a measurement there and, 23:38 so that's how we would measure the closer stars. 23:42 Now it turns out to be God has put some 23:45 amazing candles out there, okay? 23:48 They're called Cepheid variables, 23:49 cepheid variable stars, there are stars that are like 23:52 a light bulb dimmer and they would go like 23:55 from five watts to a hundred watts 23:56 or ten watts to fifty watt, these stars go, 23:59 get dim and bright and low and behold, 24:02 we look at our watch and we go, 24:04 wow, this thing varies, it gets light and dim, 24:07 it takes 10 hours 31 minutes and 21 seconds, 24:10 every 10 hours 31 minutes 21 seconds, 24:12 it goes from a five watt light bulb 24:15 to a fifty watt light bulb and so as we look around, 24:18 we see all of these cepheid variable stars 24:20 that change in brightness with time, 24:23 they're all locked 24:25 and we can measure the distance, 24:26 you know, we can measure these stars 24:28 because they're in that realm 24:29 where we can measure distance to stars 24:31 and they can measure the brightness of a star, 24:33 like you can't believe, 24:34 the sensitivity of these machines, 24:36 the instruments and cameras, 24:37 I can't believe that I can tell you some stories 24:41 about my experience with that. 24:43 But so they can really measure 24:46 very accurately the brightness of these stars 24:48 and low and behold, those that take, 24:50 you know, 10 hours 31 minutes, 24:52 let's say the 50 to... 24:55 Five to fifty watt light bulbs, okay, 24:57 they're stars and then look over here 25:00 and here it goes from 10 to 30 years ago, 25:03 you know, and so the brightness varies with time 25:07 and low and behold, we look at another galaxy, 25:09 we look to Andromeda galaxy 25:11 which we think is 2.8 million light years away 25:14 and low and behold, we see, 25:16 we look at our watch and we go, whoa, 25:18 I got cepheid variables in Andromeda galaxy, 25:21 you know, 10 hours 31 minutes 25:23 and so this allows us to measure distance, 25:26 we know that the brightness diminishes 25:28 with the square of the distance. 25:30 Every time you double the distance, 25:32 it's four times dimmer. 25:34 And so we have really good ways of measuring, 25:39 you know, stars in distant galaxies. 25:43 Using that principle, 25:44 looking for cepheid variable stars, 25:46 now beyond that we get to a point 25:48 where the galaxies are so far away. 25:50 We don't see the individual stars 25:52 and those, you know, 25:54 are we can't actually measure 25:57 using the cepheid variable stars, 25:59 the distances to those galaxies infer 26:01 that they go to red shift 26:03 and we know that light actually shifts 26:06 when it's moving away from us, it shifts towards the red, 26:11 light moving towards us shift towards the blue, 26:13 we can look at galaxies and galaxies are spinning 26:16 and on one side of the galaxy, 26:18 we see stars shifting to the red 26:22 and on the other side, the stars shifting to the blue. 26:25 In fact, we can show you the butterfly nebula 26:27 coming up here in one of these programs 26:29 and it's a nebula which they believe is spinning, 26:32 it was photographed with the Subaru telescope 26:34 in Hawaii and on this butterfly nebula, 26:38 it looks like a butterfly wing, on one side you see the stars 26:41 all shifted towards the magenta 26:43 and the other side shifted towards the blue, 26:45 so when they tell you that there are, 26:48 you know, so many stars in a galaxy, 26:52 I don't think we have a really good feel 26:55 for the accuracy of the numbers of stars 26:57 but when they talk about the distances, 26:59 I think they do pretty well, 27:02 you know, in what we have ability to measure the star 27:07 and that's one of the questions, you know, 27:08 that always comes up when we're lecturing as 27:10 how do we know the distances out there? 27:11 Really that far away and so 27:15 and we were gonna be showing you, 27:16 coming up a galaxy that they say 27:18 is 13 billion light years away 27:20 and from that we can go to Psalm 103 27:23 where it says, 27:24 "As high as the heavens above the earth, 27:26 that's how great God's mercy is towards us." 27:29 Well, folks, we're coming to end of our program, 27:31 I wanna thank you for watching. 27:32 Join us again next time for Heaven's Declare. 27:36 Thank you. |
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