The Sign of God

EYE OF GOD

This is an authentic photograph (actually, a composite of images) taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. It was featured on NASA’s website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003 and thereafter reproduced on a number of websites under the title “The Eye of God” (though I have found no evidence that NASA has ever referred to it as such). The awe-inspiring image has also been featured on magazine covers and in articles about space imagery.

Helix nebula, described by astronomers as “a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases.” is about 700 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius.

The Helix is a sun-like star and is in its final explosion stage before it retires into a white dwarf.

At its center is dying star which has ejected masses of dust and gas to form tentacle-like filaments stretching toward an outer rim composed of the same material.

Shells of gas are blown off the star’s surface often in intricate patterns that are lit up by the ultra-violet radiation.

It has been studied in much more detail than other planetary nebulae due to its relatively close proximity to Earth.

Although the shape of the Helix resembles a doughnut, scientists believe it consists of at least two separate discs with outer rings and filaments.

The main ring is about two light years across, which equates to about half the distance between the Sun and its nearest star.

HAND OF GOD

A ghostly blue cloud seems to form an outstretched thumb and fingers grasping a ball of fire.

The amazing image was taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, which is orbiting 580 km or 360 miles above the Earthaking images of high-energy locations across the universe, such as the remnants of exploded stars.

It recalls pictures of the Helix planetary nebula, with its blue centre surrounded by white clouds which earned it the nickname “the eye of God”.

The hand was created when a star exploded in a supernova, creating a rapidly spinning 20km-wide star called a pulsar, which is deep inside the white blob at the hand’s wrist.

Although the pulsar itself is only 12 miles in diameter, it is spewing out enormous amounts of electromagnetic energy, creating a dust and gas cloud so wide it would take 150 years to cross at the speed of light.

The red disc is a separate gas cloud. The fingers are thought to have been created as energy passed from the pulsar to the gas cloud.

NASA scientists estimated the moment depicted here actually happened 17,000 years ago.

It has taken since then for the X-rays to reach Earth.

What appears, with a little imagination, to be the outstretched fingers were created by a spinning neutron star known as a pulsar B1509 buried deep inside the fist, which releases energy as it rotates.

Neutron stars are created when standard stars run out of fuel and collapse, and Nasa believes that the one pictured is rotating around seven times a second.

The golden-red lights in the image are actually part of a neighbouring gas cloud, which has been energised by the wind of electrons and ions being spewed out from the pulsar.

The colours of the image represent different energy intensities – the blue lights are the areas of highest energy X-rays, followed by green and then red.

THE LAKE OF LOVE
It seems an unlikely place to find such a symbol of romance. But Mother Nature chose this bleakly beautiful Arctic landscape to leave her mark in the form of a stunning heart-shaped lake.

It has emerged as climate change melted the glacier that covered the area. Blocks of ice trapped during the glacier’s retreat caused the ground to cave in, creating a heart-like hollow, some 120ft by 90ft, that then filled with rainwater or snow melt.

The picture was taken by French photographer Bruno Mazodier on Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago.

May be God just wanna say that we must has an eye to see clearly what happened around us by heart, and grab the truth as  a hand with full of fire

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