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Series Code: TIJ
Program Code: TIJ005108S
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00:32 Space, immeasurable distances, incalculable numbers,
00:37 incomparable speeds, incomprehensible spheres, 00:42 inconceivable power. 00:44 The magnitude of space is awe inspiring, the sheer vastness 00:49 of it along with the trillions upon trillions of objects 00:53 in the many billion galaxies of the universe is almost 00:57 incomprehensible to the human brain. 01:00 For instance, there are more stars 01:03 in space than grains of sand in the world. 01:06 In fact, there are 10 times more stars in the night sky 01:10 than grains of sand on all the beaches of planet earth 01:15 and then in addition there are probably more planets than stars. 01:20 And remember this, we can only see a small percentage of the 01:24 universe from earth, even with an optical telescope. 01:27 The sheer size of space makes it impossible to accurately 01:33 predict just how many stars we have, they're really 01:37 completely uncountable and just think of the immensity of space. 01:42 For example, our earth could fit into the sun 1.3 million 01:48 times and one of the closest large galaxies to us is the 01:52 Andromeda Galaxy that is 2.5 million light years away. 01:59 Yes, it's all enough to boggle the mind but by understanding 02:04 our galaxy, we may be able to better understand our place 02:08 in it and how this world came to be. 02:11 So, come with me on a journey through space and make 02:16 discoveries that are intriguing and more amazing than you could 02:20 ever imagine. Yes, spectacular adventure awaits the person 02:26 who reads what is written in the night sky. 02:29 Venture onwards with me to the farthest depths of our 02:33 Milky Way galaxy and be on to the biggest and brightest stars 02:38 light years away. 02:39 The stars have a message for us today, a message that will 02:45 hold you spellbound. 03:05 Here rising above the wheat and canola fields about 03:09 380 kilometers west of Sydney in central New South Whales 03:14 Australia is the world-famous CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope. 03:19 The Parkes Observatory was first officially opened on the 03:24 thirty-first of October of 1961 and is one of the largest 03:28 single-dish telescopes in the southern hemisphere dedicated 03:32 to astronomy. The telescope works 24 hours a day 03:36 and is now 10,000 times more sensitive to signals 03:41 than it was when it was first built. 03:43 The Parkes Observatory is run by the CSIRO, Australia's 03:49 National Science Agency and is considered by many 03:53 to be the most successful scientific instrument ever built 03:57 in Australia and was recently added to the National Heritage 04:01 List. While it is operated primarily for astronomy research 04:06 the Parkes telescope has a long history of being contracted 04:10 by NASA and other International Space Agencies to track and 04:15 receive data from spacecraft. 04:17 It is affectionately known as "The Dish" after the entertaining 04:22 movie based loosely on the role of the Parkes Telescope 04:26 in one of humanities most significant achievements 04:30 "The Apollo 11 Moon Landing." 04:33 Roger, go for one injection. At precisely 12:56 p.m. 04:37 on the 21st of July 1969 Australian Eastern Standard Time 04:42 mankind took its one giant leap and 600,000,000 people 04:48 one 5th of the world's population at that time watched as 04:53 Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon. 04:56 It's one small step for man... The NASA Facility at Goldstone 05:07 California and Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra were the source 05:12 of the first 8.5 minutes of the first moon-walk TV pictures 05:17 until NASA decided that the larger 64 Meter Parkes Radio 05:22 Telescope was providing better images of the Apollo 11 05:26 Astronauts exploring the moon surface. 05:28 So, for the following five hours the live broadcast came from 05:34 this telescope here at Parkes. The signal was split in two 05:39 one went to the ABC, Australian Broadcasting Commission in 05:44 Sydney for Australian distribution and the other 05:48 was sent halfway around the world to Houston, TX 05:51 for International Broadcast which added a slight delay. 05:55 So Australian audiences can boast that they saw Neil Armstrong's 06:01 Historic first step, 0.3 seconds before the rest of the world. 06:06 So we were the first to see it all happen. 06:16 Now distances in space are so vast that we cannot talk 06:21 of them in terms of kilometers or miles so astronomers 06:26 use much bigger units of measurements. 06:29 They use a measurement which is called a Light year, 06:32 it's the distance light travels in one year. 06:36 A ray of light travels in space at a speed of 300,000 km a 06:43 second or 18 million km a minute, a speed so great that traveling 06:50 at the speed of light, we could circle the earth eight times 06:54 every time your heart beats. 06:56 This is the measuring stick of the skies of space. 07:01 Let's ride on the winds of light to the sun and from there 07:05 take a journey around our solar system. 07:09 The trip to the sun is 150 million km and will only take 07:16 us 8 minutes traveling at the speed of light. 07:19 The sun is the star at the center of our solar system 07:23 where it is by far the largest object. It's so massive 07:28 that it contains 99.8% of our solar systems mass and is 07:34 roughly 109 times the diameter of the earth. 07:38 Over one million earths could fit inside the sun. 07:43 The gravity of the sun is what keeps all of the planets 07:47 moons and bodies within our solar system together. 07:51 The sun is our nuclear power plant in the sky and provides 07:57 the heat needed to sustain light from planet earth. 08:00 Without the sun, we wouldn't exist, it drives our seasons 08:06 ocean currents, weather, and climate and now we continue 08:12 our journey. Bidding farewell to the sun, we seat ourselves 08:17 comfortably on a beam of light for our 18 km imaginary flight 08:22 across the solar system. 08:24 After three minutes we reach the planet closest to the sun 08:29 Mercury, it's the smallest planet in our solar system 08:33 Its surface is very much like our moon dry, dusty and 08:40 pitted with craters, it has the most extreme temperature 08:44 fluctuations in the solar system temperatures vary between 08:50 400 degrees Celsius and -180 degrees Celsius. 08:55 It's hard to imagine a more inhospitable place, 08:59 life couldn't exist on this planet and so we are soon 09:04 on our way again. Another three minutes of travel on our 09:09 light beam brings us to the second planet from the sun 09:12 called Venus. It's practically the same size as our earth 09:17 and is the third brightest object in our sky after the 09:21 sun and moon. 09:22 Venus shines so brightly that it's the first planet to appear 09:27 in the sky, after the sun sets, or the last to disappear 09:32 before the sun rises. It's often called "The Morning Star" 09:37 or "The Evening Star". Venus reflects the light 09:41 from the sun and is named after the Roman God of Love and 09:45 Beauty. Now two minutes on from Venus on our light beam 09:50 brings us to the third planet from the sun. 09:53 Earth, our home planet, earth is a world unlike any other 10:00 it's the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. 10:05 This is because it has two very important things that 10:09 living creatures need to survive, lots of oxygen 10:13 and lots of water. Its distance from the sun means its 10:19 not too hot and not too cold for creatures to live on too. 10:23 It's the fifth-largest planet in our solar system and the 10:27 only one known for sure to have liquid water on its surface. 10:32 Ahead of us now, four minutes away is Mars, 10:36 the fourth planet from the sun. Mars is named after the Roman 10:41 god of war, it's also known as the Red Planet 10:46 because well, it's red. 10:49 Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system 10:54 after Mercury. One of NASA's latest projects that have 10:59 captivated the interest of the world is the landing of the 11:03 Perseverance Rover on Mars on the 18th of February 2021. 11:08 And then on the 19th of April 2021 Ingenuity, the first robotic 11:15 helicopter completed the first power-controlled flight by 11:19 an aircraft on Mars. 11:22 The Rover carried signed instruments to collect 11:26 soil samples and to look for signs of ancient life. 11:29 It even has audio/visual technology which captured the 11:34 flight of Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter. 11:37 This footage will let us see and hear what it's like 11:41 to touch down on another world for the first time ever. 11:45 Mars has long intrigued us and has a special appeal 11:51 but we must move on. 11:53 We now head for the fifth planet from the sun 11:57 and by far the largest planet in the solar system. 12:00 Jupiter. Traveling at the speed of light, it takes 30 minutes 12:05 to get there, we are awed by its size, it's more than twice 12:10 as massive as all the other planets in our solar system 12:15 combined, it would require 1,312 worlds the size of 12:22 planet earth to match the size of Jupiter. 12:25 Fittingly it's named after the king of the gods in Roman 12:30 Mythology, it's also the fastest spinning planet and has the 12:36 shortest day of all the planets. But the call of the outer 12:41 planets beckons. Another 36 minutes into outer space 12:45 brings us to Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun 12:50 and the beautiful queen of the solar system. 12:53 Saturn is the second largest planet after Jupiter 12:57 and is adorned with a magnificent system of icy rings 13:01 composed of billions of tiny chunks of ice and rock. 13:06 Saturn is named after the Roman god of agriculture and harvest. 13:12 now the trip from Saturn to Uranus, the seventh planet 13:16 from the sun takes an hour and a quarter and remember 13:20 every minute we travel 18 million kilometers. 13:24 Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky 13:29 and is a giant ice planet, four time larger than our earth. 13:34 It's the coldest planet in our solar system and makes one trip 13:39 around the sun every 84 years. Rushing on we travel for 13:46 1.5 hours to Neptune, the eighth and last planet in the 13:50 solar system. It's the farthest planet from our sun 13:54 more than 30 times further than the sun than earth is. 13:58 It's dark, cold, and very windy and is named after the Greek god 14:05 of the sea. This planet is so far from earth that it can 14:10 only be studied with the greatest difficulty using 14:13 strong telescopes. For many years we thought that there were 14:17 nine planets in our solar system but in August 2006, 14:23 the International Astronomical Union downgraded the status of 14:27 Pluto, which used to be the ninth planet, to that of a 14:31 dwarf planet, that means its a celestial body that orbits 14:36 the sun but doesn't meet the criteria of a true planet. 14:40 So our journey across the solar system ends at Neptune. 14:45 Now it's difficult to grasp just how many millions of 14:49 kilometers we have traveled in such a short time. 14:53 In fact, traveling at the speed of light, we've crossed our 14:57 entire solar system in about five and a half hours 15:01 and when we reach Neptune, we're about four and a half 15:05 billion kilometers from the Parke's Dish. 15:09 But notice what we have discovered about our 15:12 solar system, these eight planets and their moons 15:16 swing majestically around the sun all timed to perfection 15:21 moving consistently in their orbits and spinning perfectly 15:25 on their axis from little Mercury to far away Neptune. 15:30 we find rhythmic perfection, we see that order and design 15:35 no chance and Chaos can control the movements 15:39 of the heavenly bodies. 15:44 Now that we've crossed our solar system our journey 15:47 through star-land has only just begun. 15:50 Our solar system is part of the Milky Way Galaxy 15:54 so now let's leave our solar system and set out towards 15:59 one of our nearest stars in this galaxy. 16:02 Alpha Centauri, back into our beam of light and traveling 16:06 at 18 km a minute, it takes us four years and four months. 16:12 Now that's so far that it's virtually impossible for us 16:16 to grasp the immensity and glory of space so consider this. 16:21 We've just traveled through our solar system with its 16:25 single sun, it's a sun system. 16:28 Our sun takes its entire family of planets and moons 16:32 with it on its journey through space. Our sun and solar system 16:37 belong to the Milky Way Galaxy. 16:40 Now to help put this in perspective, if the Milky Way 16:44 Galaxy were the size of the continent of Australia, 16:47 our solar system would fit in a coffee cup. 16:52 Now, try to get your head around this. 16:56 Just in our Milky Way Galaxy, there are over 200 billion stars 17:02 like our sun, each with their own family of planets and moons. 17:06 Our sun is just one of those 200 billion stars that make up 17:12 the Milky Way Galaxy but that is not all. 17:16 There are at least 10 billion galaxies in the universe. 17:21 Our Milky Way Galaxy with its 200 billion stars is just one 17:27 of the 10 billion galaxies that make up the universe. 17:31 Now our journey so far has taken us through our 17:36 solar system and far into our Milky Way Galaxy. 17:40 But can you believe that this is still only the beginning 17:44 of the universe. So, we now leave the Milky Way Galaxy 17:50 and travel to one of the closest large galaxies called Andromeda. 17:55 Now Andromeda is approximately the same size and shape 18:00 as our Milky Way Galaxy. Traveling at the speed of light 18:05 it would take us 750,000 years to reach Andromeda 18:11 and we're still only on the doorstep of the universe. 18:14 We are still only in our neighborhood as it were. 18:18 Now Andromeda is a galaxy of mighty suns with cluster after 18:24 cluster, sun system after sun system all whirling in perfect 18:30 balance and precision through space. 18:32 But our journey would not be complete without viewing Orion, 18:37 the majesty of the heavens, a little closer to home. 18:41 It's one of the most recognizable patterns in the 18:44 night sky, visible around the world. 18:47 The appearance of the Orion Nebula is one of the most 18:51 beautiful sights in the heavens, is described as that of 18:56 light shining and glowing behind Herculean walls of Ivory 19:00 or pearl, walls studded with millions of diamonds points 19:05 and everyone is a shining star. 19:08 And these stars are in reality giant blazing suns 19:13 many of them dwarfing our sun in size. 19:18 It's difficult for the human mind to comprehend innumerable 19:23 worlds, immeasurable space and the intricate design 19:27 evident everywhere in the universe, yet this incredibly 19:32 complex universe is as smooth running as a delicate 19:36 finely tuned watch. 19:38 Just think billions of galaxies traveling at phenomenal speed 19:44 in their appointed course through the skies with timing 19:48 so precise that astronomers can predict the 19:52 location of these heavenly bodies thousands of years 19:55 in the future. It's no wonder humans have been fascinated 20:01 and amazed by the beauty and precision of the stars. 20:05 Since ancient times for thousands of years the beauty 20:09 of the night sky has enchanted and mystified people all over 20:14 the world. Astronomy was the first science of the ancient 20:19 civilizations, they created calendars and time measurements 20:24 based on the movements of the heavenly bodies and in a sense 20:29 their lives were governed by the seasons and the time 20:32 measurements associated with the stars and planets. 20:36 The heavenly bodies became so important to the lives 20:40 of these people that they began to worship them. 20:43 The ancient Egyptians applied their astronomy knowledge 20:47 to their immense building projects, they were able to 20:51 construct pyramids with amazing accuracy and planned 20:55 their lives and seasons according to the stars 20:58 so they worshipped the stars. This was also the case with the 21:04 early Sumerian civilization who built temple towers 21:07 or Ziggurats for the worship of the moon. 21:11 Even further back in time on the Salisbury Plains of England 21:15 the ancient British Star Gazers somehow moved stones 9 meters 21:20 high and weighing 50 tons to construct a center of Sun 21:25 Worship, but it wasn't just a table, it's a giant time keeping 21:30 device and a kind of observatory for studying and predicting 21:35 the movements of the moon as well as the sun. 21:38 Then in Chichen Itza, one of the sacred cities of the Mayan 21:43 civilization in Mexico, they built pyramids to the sun god. 21:47 High in the Andes Mountains at Machu Picchu, the Inca people 21:53 worshipped the sun and other heavenly bodies that played a 21:57 major role in their lives. 21:58 But the ancient Hebrews, the Israelites responded differently 22:04 to the grandeur of the night sky. 22:06 They saw and marveled at the order and precision of the night 22:12 sky but instead of worshipping the sky and the planets 22:16 they saw the heavenly bodies in their rhythmic perfection 22:20 as evidence of a Higher Power, a Master Designer. 22:24 The Higher Power, the Master Designer, they called Jehovah 22:30 or God and they saw the stars and the universe as a creation 22:36 of their God, and so rather than worshipping the stars 22:39 as gods as other civilizations did, the Hebrews worshipped 22:45 the God who made the stars. 22:47 They saw the stars as evidence that their God 22:51 was the almighty creator God. They believe the stars carried 22:56 a message, a message concerning the origin and destiny of the 23:01 human race. Listen to the words of the ancient Bible prophets. 23:26 This concept of a creator God colored Hebrew thinking and life 23:31 and formed the foundation of Judea Christian Fort 23:35 which is underpinned our own civilization. 23:38 This ancient wisdom is relevant to us today, evidently the 23:45 heavens are providing the answers to questions many 23:48 people are asking today, answers about our origins 23:52 and our destiny. People are asking and the skies are 23:57 talking back, they carry a message. 24:00 Many of us today are uncertain about where we are going 24:06 or why uncertain morally and spiritually. 24:09 We wonder if the universe we live in is friendly or unfriendly 24:14 but we can find answers to our questions by looking to the 24:19 stars, to the planned precision of their unfailing orbits 24:24 and discover who is behind it all. 24:27 That's what the Bible prophets advised. Notice these words. 24:36 Yes ancient wisdom but extremely relevant to modern 24:42 people. You see when we study the stars we find rhythmic 24:47 perfection, we see that order and design not chance and chaos 24:52 control the movements of the stars and heavenly bodies. 24:56 Now order and rhythmic perfection show design 25:00 and design means there must be a designer, a master designer. 25:06 In the very first sentence of the Bible pinpoints this 25:10 Master Designer, this Creator. 25:19 And here's what's really amazing, this great creator 25:23 God cares about you. Listen to this. 25:43 Isn't that astounding? 25:45 This big and powerful God who made the stars actually cares 25:50 about you and the details in your life, the big things, 25:55 the little things, everything, He really does. 25:59 The creator of heaven and earth is not a distant celestial 26:03 being, He's an intimate Father who loves you dearly. 26:08 God cares more about the inner space of your heart than the 26:13 outer space of the universe. You are most important to Him 26:19 and He really does care about you. 26:23 Sometimes there are periods in our life when we are 26:28 uncertain, disoriented, off course and just not sure of 26:33 where we are going or why, it happens to all of us. 26:37 If you would like to find certainty, assurance and 26:41 direction in your life, then I'd like to recommend the free gift 26:45 for all our Incredible Journey viewers today. 26:49 It's the booklet, "Message From The Stars". 26:53 This wonderful little booklet is our gift to you 26:57 and is absolutely Free. I guarantee there are no costs 27:01 or obligations whatsoever. 27:03 So, why not take the opportunity to receive the Free gift we have 27:09 for you today? Phone or text 27:16 or 020.422.2042 in New Zealand, or visit our website at TIJ.tv 27:25 or simply scan the QR code on your screen 27:28 and we'll send you today's free offer totally free of charge 27:32 and with no obligation. Write to us at GPO Box 274 27:37 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia or PO Box 76673 Manukau, Auckland 27:46 2241 New Zealand. Don't Delay, call or text us now. 27:50 Dear Heavenly Father, Today we have been reminded 27:58 of the precision and magnitude of space. 28:00 We've seen the work of your hands and are left in awe 28:04 by the beauty and wonder of it all. But even more amazing 28:08 is your unconditional love for us. Please guide and direct 28:13 our lives we pray. In Jesus' Name. Amen! |
Revised 2022-11-15