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Home - Creator - Saviour - Life Giver - Orthodoxy - Christian Life - Worship - Stepping Forward - Site Map - Visitors - Contact CREATOR UNIT: Questions - Cosmos - Solar System - Earth - Microcosm - Divine Image - Cosmic Christ THE COSMOS You are here!
In case you wondered, this is our galactic address:- Earth, Sol System, the Local Fluff, Orion Arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Galactic Supercluster, Cosmos 1. Here are some nice pictures to go with that address:-
Stellar Systems within 12.7 light years of our Solar System (3D representation) (*Note: The Cosmos has no "centre" ... it is an expanding space with embedded concentrations of matter and energy within it, quite without centre or rim. Virgo is at placed at the "centre" of this diagram for presentational purposes only) Key Facts and Ideas
There are estimated to be 200 billion stars in our galaxy of which our sun is just one. That's 200,000,000,000 stars. After the Big Bang the galaxies condensed out in superclusters. In the observable Cosmos we know that there are about 100 billion galaxies, or seventeen for each man, woman and child living on the earth today. So, we are certainly dwarfed by these immensities. From a distance these galactic objects are incredibly beautiful. Close up though, most are exceedingly violent and unmindful of us. Some people recoil from this and reject the thought that the Cosmos bears the hallmark of a caring purposeful creative "mind" (God). Others conclude exactly the opposite. These say that the fact that there is anything at all, rather than nothing, is a fact that demands interpretation, a rational account. This concerns not just what the Universe is (science) but why the Universe is (faith).
Science describes how the Universe came to be and how it "works." Religion should look for meaning in the Universe and a relationship with the Creator. Key Question
Do I think that the Cosmos came to be and evolved by accidents of its own nature? or, was it designed and created by a purposeful "mind" (God)?
Resources
1. The Milky Way Galaxy (Wikipedia) 2. An Atlas of the Universe 3. The Universal Christ by Fr. Gregory Hallam 4. Orthodoxy and Cosmology by Fr. Gregory Hallam 5. The Universe doesn't Care by Fr. Gregory Hallam 6. The Worlds of David Darling by Dr. David Darling
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