The Bible tells us: "The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork." When one looks at this image, courtesy of the Webb space telescope, of the Cartwheel Galaxy, I can only nod slowly in awed agreement. Click the image for a much larger view.
How's that for a star to top the cosmic Christmas tree?
Peter
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As my brother says (gleefully, with gusto), "God likes fire and explosions. If you don't believe me, just look at all the supernovae! If I really want to be like God, well . . ."
To be clear, my brother likes explosions that don't involve life, limb, or destroyed property. Say, target practice involving old ovens and tannerite, or bonfires with discarded Christmas trees.
That's pretty.
I think the word "galaxy" means really really big! How many stars are there in a galaxy?
Beautiful to boot!!
Is that the Eye of Sauron Galaxy?
@Skyler: No. The Eye of Sauron is a nebula, not a galaxy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_1-42
Follow the link in the article to read about the Cartwheel Galaxy.
“When you get the data down, they they don’t look anything like a beautiful color image,” said Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist at STScI, who heads-up a team of 30 expert image manipulators. “They don’t hardly look like anything at all [and] it’s only if you know what to look for that you can appreciate them.”
Forbes Magazine
You wouldn't see the infrared shading as colors with our eyes.
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