INDESCRIBABLE

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.  Psalms 147:4

All I could say was, "wow," when we completed the INDESCRIBABLE dvd this morning in Sunday School.  It's completely indescribable..... it's as if this entire galaxy (Whirlpool Galaxy M51) was created just to praise Him; and what's at the core of this galaxy is a testament to that.  And NASA's hubble telescope shows it all.... in living color!

Located 31 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs),the Whirlpool is one of astronomy's galactic darlings.  The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust.

The Whirlpool's most striking feature is its two curving arms, a hallmark of so-called grand-design spiral galaxies. Many spiral galaxies possess numerous, loosely shaped arms which make their spiral structure less pronounced. These arms serve an important purpose in spiral galaxies. They are star-formation factories, compressing hydrogen gas and creating clusters of new stars. In the Whirlpool, the assembly line begins with the dark clouds of gas on the inner edge, then moves to bright pink star-forming regions, and ends with the brilliant blue star clusters along the outer edge.  The core of M51 shows a striking , dark "X" silhouetted across the galaxy's nucleus. The "X" is due to absorption by dust and marks the exact position of a black hole which may have a mass equivalent to one-million stars like the sun.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. Genesis 1:-14-17