So I saw an update somewhere that was talking about new pictures from the Hubble telescope. I thought I would share some of this with you. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. The description (see below picture) just made it that much cooler:
“A beautiful view of a star in its death throes is featured in a gallery of images sent back by the Hubble Space Telescope after its final shuttle servicing mission in May 2009. The planetary nebula NGC 6302, better known as the Butterfly Nebula or the Bug Nebula, is about 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The features that look like dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit, blasted away from a dying star bigger than the sun. This picture was taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.”
I was blown away by the fact that the temperature was 36,000 degrees!! That’s just amazing. Seriously.
Beyond all of this, just looking at the picture and reminded of God, and what he can do. Just as this star dies, it looks like a butterfly, a new creation. Like in 2 Corinthians 5:17 it says: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
In that phrase, the word “BEHOLD” really sticks out. So what’s the definition you may ask:
transitive verb
1 : to perceive through sight or apprehension : see
2 : to gaze upon : observe
intransitive verb —used in the imperative especially to call attention
We are to not just become a new creation, but we have to realize and call attention to the fact that we are a new creation. To show others that we are. To be an example to those who haven’t “died” yet.. That’s my blurb of the day 🙂
