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The Pillars of Creation Hubble 1995 |
UPDATED 22 October 2022: Above is the image collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) 27 years ago (1995). This image was instantly titled "The Pillars of Creation." it is a unique feature of M16, also known as the vast Eagle Nebula, that lies a distant 6,500 light years from the Earth. This image was taken in the visible light spectrum. The name given to this gaseous formation is due to its being an active nursery of stars being formed and born from relatively cool clouds of gas and dust. Some new stars are clearly seen within the "pillars." Then eight years ago (2014) NASA scientists announced that the pillars has stretched at least 60 Billion miles at a speed of 450,000 miles per hours due to the star formation occurring within them.
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The Pillars of Creation Webb 2022 |
Now we have a new, far more stunning and revealing image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The stunning part are the changes now seen 27 years later with mankind's increased knowledge and technological development. For perspective the pillar on the left stands at 4 light years in length, that's 24 Trillion miles. Compare these two clickable images. The light from each them began its journey through the heavenly spaces long ago, but the changes seen in just 27 years of time as we understand time are incredible and extremely obvious.
Update - Here is an just released enhanced image (click on it for full details) of the middle pillar seen in the image directly above. It is in this view that the aforementioned Creation of new stars can be seen most clearly. Those new stars are the red dots within the pillar of dust and gas. The light that this image from the JWST captured has been traveling towards the Earth for an amount of time that is roughly equal to 60 million years prior to when the dinosaurs went extinct on this planet. It's mind-boggling to consider the vastness of our Universe, well beyond complete human comprehension. But that in itself is the nature of our Creator GOD Almighty.
What NASA and a whole slew of astrophysicists, et al, save one or two, have not surprisingly failed to mention is that these images and the accompanying data points confirm what the Holy Spirit-inspired writers of numerous Biblical texts stated thousands of years ago. Take Isaiah 40:22 for example:
It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
And Psalm 104:2
Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
Less than 60 years ago all of these scientists, save one or two of faith, were insisting that the universe was static and had always been static. Oops, then as part of the angel Gabriel had imparted in his last words to the prophet Daniel (Daniel 12:4):
“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Yes, we can say with absolute certainty that Gabriel even prophesied at least 2,600 years ago that mankind would one day, at "the time of the end" be where we are today, doing the things we are doing today and with the increased knowledge we have today - all of it confirming with absolute precision what God's word has always said. So here we are, at the end of the 6th millennium and awaiting the start of His Kingdom in the 7th millennium, looking at images today of what God did Bereshyith (in the beginning).