It is time to re-activate this blog for the Christianity and Natural Sciences course for the coming semester. I will be posting mostly comments and internet links on this blog related to Faith and Science issues. These links and posts may be part of classroom discussions.
A writer for Discover Magazine has selected the 10 most amazing astronomy photographs of 2008. The one above spoke to me but they are all pretty astonishing. I especially like the image of a exploding star from the other side of the Universe (the light would have had to start more than 4 billion years before our star the Sun formed). But the one I have to post is the one above of a spiral galaxy among other spiral galaxy. If you got far enough away from our Milky Way Galaxy this is what home would look like. It is so beautiful and complete one would assume it is a cheap starfield background painting but not only is it real it was taken with a ground based telescope. Beautiful, simply beautiful.
It is a bit gimmicky but this little video of the Moon passing across the face of the Earth as seen from a satellite sent to look at comets is kinda neat also.
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