Thomas Nelson - The Heavens Proclaim His Glory: A Spectacular View of Creation Through the Lens of the NASA Hubble Telescope

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The Heavens Proclaim His Glory
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Contents

WORSHIPING THE GOD
who created it all

As you turn the pages of
The Heavens Proclaim His Glory,

be prepared for your heart to soar into
the stratosphere of space,
worshiping the God who created it all.

ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ

Did you know?

One light-year is six trillion miles.

The milky way galaxy is 100,000 light-years across.
(Thats 600,000,000,000,000,000 miles.)

There are about 350,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe.

NASA, ESA, and the hubble SM4 ERO Team

Tis there

Beyond the reach of earth
That ever draws my heart away
To wonder at the universe;
To think, to watch;
To dream, to pray.

KEVIN HARTNETT

Jet in Carina

NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STSCI)

Light Echoes from
Red Supergiant Star

THIS IS A NOVA-LIKE VARIABLE STAR
WITH SURROUNDING LIGHT ECHO.

IT IS 20,000 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY AND
13.7 LIGHT-YEARS WIDE.

IN THE BEGINNING
GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS
AND THE EARTH.

GENESIS 1:1

Silently one by one, in the infinite
meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars,
the forget-me-nots of the angels.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

THE GLORIOUS DAWN OF GODS STORY BEGINS with the simple statement that in the beginning of time and space, God was already there. He iseternal. He is not bound by time or by space. Which means He is fullypresent in every age, in every generation, in every corner of the Universe...fully present on planet Earth and on the surface of the moon... fully presentyesterday, today, and tomorrow... fully present with you and with me. EXCEPT FOR ONCE, when He made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being foundin appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to deatheven death on a cross!

ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ,Gods Story

NASA, The NICMOS Group (STScI, ESA), and The Nicmos Science Team (Univ. of Arizona)

Then God said, Let therebe lights in the firmamentof the heavens to divide theday from the night; and letthem be for signs and seasons,and for days and years;and let them be for lights inthe firmament of the heavensto give light on the earth;and it was so.

GENESIS 1:1415

How could so much have evolved out of nothing? How did the stars get scattered across such a vast expanse of space? Why is there such diversity among them? What set the stars ablaze, and where did the planets come from?

Genesis 1 gives a simple answer: God made them all. He spoke them into existence. Their vastness, their complexity, their beauty, and their sheer number all reveal the glory and the wisdom of an all-powerful Creator. And they remind us how amazing it is that such a great Creator would lavish His grace and favor on the human race. After all, from the perspective of size, our whole world constitutes only an infinitesimal speck in the vastness of all He created.

JOHN MACARTHUR, The Battle for the Beginning

Omega Swan Nebula

NASA, ESA, and J. Hester (ASU)

RESEMBLING THE FURY OF A RAGING SEA, THIS IMAGE ACTUALLY SHOWS A BUBBLY OCEAN OF GLOWING
HYDROGEN GAS AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF OTHER ELEMENTS, SUCH AS OXYGEN AND SULFUR. IT IS 5,500
LIGHT-YEARS AWAY, LOCATED IN THE CONSTELLATION SAGITT ARIUS. IT IS ROUGHLY 3 LIGHT-YEARS ACROSS.

The Majestic Sombrero Galaxy

THIS GALAXYS HALLMARK IS A BRILLIANT WHITE,
BULBOUS CORE ENCIRCLED BY THE THICK DUST
LANES COMPRISING THE SPIRAL STRUCTURE OF
THE GALAXY. AS SEEN FROM EARTH, THE GALAXY
IS TILTED NEARLY EDGE-ON. THIS BRILLIANT
GALAXY WAS NAMED THE SOMBRERO BECAUSE
OF ITS RESEMBLANCE TO THE BROAD RIM AND
HIGH-TOP OF THE MEXICAN HAT. THE GALAXY
IS 50,000 LIGHT-YEARS ACROSS AND 28 MILLION
LIGHT-YEARS FROM EARTH.

NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA )

I can see how it might be possible for a man
to look down upon the earth and be an atheist,

but I cannot conceive how he could
look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

NASA, ESA, J. Clarke (Boston University), and Z. Levay (STScI)