Awesome God
When God said in Isaiah 40;26 ‘Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host in number; He calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth’’.
Someone at first may not appreciate the awesomeness of this scripture and not until he/she learnt the astronomers’ claim that there are over 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (70 sextillion) stars which are suns to other planets. The number of stars in our universe is actually about 10 times more than the total number of grains of sand on the world’s beaches and deserts put together. But that is only the stars in the visible universe, within range of our telescopes.
Moreover, many of these stars have planets and many of these planets probably have life. God knows the exact number of all of them, for he made them – psalm 147;4 says He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Isaiah 45;18 says For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it: He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it and to be inhabited: I am the Lord and there is no one else.
Psalmist in psalm 147;5 says Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite. There are 70,000, million, million, million stars or suns. Our galaxy alone which is sometimes called the milky way contains roughly over 200 billion stars, which are suns and each having their own solar system, family of planets which they govern as our sun is governing nine planets or more. 100 individual galaxies in the universe and each comprising 200 billion stars or more and most of these suns or stars are believed to be larger than our sun.
For this figure to be meaningful, British astronomer said that the total number of stars in space could equal or surpass the total number of grains of sands on all sea shores of the world. In most cases these stars are separated from each other by trillions of miles. He stretched out heaven indeed.
For instance, giant stars like Epsilon Aurigae is 2,400,000,000 (2.4 billion) miles in diameter, is compared to our sun which is only 865,400 miles in diameter. The distance of the sun to the earth is about 93,000,000, miles and is 300,000 times closer to us than any other fixed star. The moon is the earth’s satellite, it is a dark opaque body and rules in the night (psalm 136; 9 Gen 1:14-18). It revolves around the earth. The earth has only 1 moon also called satellite, mars has 2; Jupiter has 12, Saturn 9 and so on.
The earth weighs 6,000million, million, million tons and our sun weighs heavier than the earth in 330,000 times. It is reported that other suns compared to our sun is heavier, for instance, the heaviest known suns/stars are 100 times more than our sun. Orion one of the giant is estimated to be 200,000 billion times larger than the sun. About 5,000 stars or suns can be seen by naked eye on a clear night and astronomers can photograph with their scientific equipments billion and billions of these stars but other stars in the multitude are so near to each other and appear to us as a solid mass.
Distances out there are so great that they are measured by light years. Space is infinite and so great is the distance that accommodates all those stars/suns in their distance and sizes. A light year is the distance travelled by light in one year. Light travels at the rate of 186,324 miles in a second which comes to 5,800,000,000,000miles in a year. This is known as one light year.
It takes light 400 years to reach us on the earth from north star. Light from Nebula, the galaxy, takes 700,000 years to reach us. It takes light 500,000,000 years to reach us from galaxy’s seen faintly from astronomers telescope. These stars or suns are so big, so far, that, when we perceive it with our naked eyes, we only see tiny stars in the sky.
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