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Thanks for watching Heavens
Declare. I'm Jim Burr and we're
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doing a program today for the
kids. I've learned that adults
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like it too because we've got so
many beautiful pictures coming
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up. You know, if you ever
have a chance to look through a
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telescope, the moon is just
incredible. I could spend weeks
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looking at the moon. You can
go to the library and get a book
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and learn all the craters.
In fact, I like to work with two
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telescopes. I like, when I have
friends over, to give them one
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telescope and I'll get another
one and we'll look at the moon
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and I'll walk them around
the moon. Look at these mountain
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ranges here, the Alpines
mountain ranges. They're 18,000
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feet tall on the moon. The
Alpines, for instance, make an
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arch. If you follow that down,
all of a sudden you'll see a
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crater that's a darker crater
and that's Plato and that's
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about 60 miles across. If
you continue on down you have a
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walled plane where a plane comes
in, the lava apparently has come
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in and we have sort of a
big arch. Then if you follow it
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around here, you have Copernicus
If you go on up above that we
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have the Sea of Nectaris. You
have Theophilus Crilius and this
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is a newer crater because you
see it's pushed over into the
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other ones. We have craters like
Messier I and II and they're on
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the very edge of the moon. These
are really fun to watch. They're
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small, but apparently, an impact
came in at a steep angle and
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shot matter out for hundreds
of miles; you see the streamers.
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So, just even looking at the
moon is breathtaking. Of course,
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people who've seen Saturn for
the first time, it's fun to see
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that for the first time and hear
their oos and their ahs. They're
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actually seeing the rings around
Saturn. Also, the moons around
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Jupiter. Even with a pair
of good binoculars you can see
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moons around Jupiter and
the rings of Saturn. They'll be
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pretty small with binoculars.
The problem is these cheap
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telescopes that are sold in
stores are a disaster. If you're
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interested in getting a
telescope, I would definitely
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recommend taking a look at what
we call a Dobsonian telescope.
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Dobsonian scopes are quite
reasonable and they're very
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solid. They don't shake all over
the universe. The stuff that's
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sold in some of these department
stores is so wiggly and so shaky
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that you get so discouraged. In
fact, I had a friend that called
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when I was headed to California
and he said I've got a
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telescope and I've never seen
a thing through it, and it was
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like hundreds and hundreds of
dollars he spent for it and the
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problem was it wasn't focusing.
Some of these you get a long
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range of focus and unless you're
close... What you've got to do
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is you have to look at a TV
tower or a hill or something way
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out in the road. Get it in
focus. Then when you look at the
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stars you'll be able to find
them. But if you have that focus
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off an inch or so you won't see
a thing you won't see a thing
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through it because it will
be so blurry you won't even see
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there's anything there. Just be
really careful buying department
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store telescopes because most of
them are so flimsy. But the word
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to look for is Dobsonian and
the smallest Dobsonians are like
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three or four inches in diameter
and then they go on up to 16
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inch and so forth. I mean, you
can get some of these for under
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a couple hundred dollars
and they're really a wonderful
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instrument, they really are. For
the money, a Dobsonian would be
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the best scope. They're very
rigid, very stable. They don't
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shake all over the place. Most
of you should actually be able
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to see moons around Jupiter,
you'll see our moon and you'll
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see the rings around Saturn and
other things. Depending on if
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you're in the middle of a city
you're not going to see much,
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but even in the city you will
see like Jupiter and Saturn and
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the moon. But as far as seeing
a lot of beautiful stars, you
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need to get out in the country
away from the city lights.
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So, today we've got a lot
of stuff to show everyone but
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the young kids particularly.
I live in the mountains of
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Colorado and we're up at high
altitude, 7,000 feet, and we
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have a lot of life that comes to
our feeders. We have birds that
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come. Just recently we saw a
couple of bobcats coming out,
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down the mountain looking for
I suppose rabbits would be their
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favorite food. Hummingbirds in
the summertime. It's fantastic
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living in the mountains. The
hummingbirds, you can actually
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get them to sit on your finger
while they drink from the feeder
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You know, it's wonderful living
in the country. We were in
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Russia and we were in these
apartments that went up 20, 30
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stories and people living in
little cubicles. When we were
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there and we showed pictures
of the animals in Russia, people
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said oh this would be heaven
to be able to have animals like
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I'm going to show a couple of
animals coming up here. Well you
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know the Bible says that
heaven is a country. I have some
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pictures of people in Hong Kong
and you can't believe. Must be
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100 stories in little cubicles,
people living in little cubicles
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They never get to see the
beauties of God's creation.
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Never get to see the mountains
and the trees and the flowers
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and all the animals that he has
created. That's not really the
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way God designed this earth, you
see. It says heaven will be a
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country. I'm going to share
some things with you about tree
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houses because tree houses would
be absolutely fantastic, living
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in the mountains where you would
have birds coming to your feeder
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I've been in some of those tree
houses. Tree houses are becoming
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very popular. You know something
I'm going to show you something.
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In heaven, you can have a tree
house. Ellen White is a lady
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that lived over 100 years ago
and God showed her many things
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and one of the things he showed
her would qualify for tree
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houses. And we're going to show
you that, but first I'd like to
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share with you an image of where
I live in the mountains and
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where we have this deer and elk
that come to our house, come to
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our feeder and there's a deer
that will actually come and eat
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out of my hand. This mother deer
will actually come when I call
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her a few times. She likes
apples and I take an apple and
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a knife and go out there and cut
slices and she just loves apples
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and she loves those little
carrots. Actually, we've had
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three deer that we have been
able to feed. We have a couple
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hundred elk that are in the
valley. I was looking out of our
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front door of our house and
you see an elk there. There were
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actually more elk, there were
about five elk out there keeping
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our lawn mowed. These elk are
quite tame too. I told my wife
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I think if I worked with them
I could probably get them eating
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out of my hand. With the deer
if you throw the apple out, you
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know, they get fairly close
to you and I don't have dogs to
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chase them away. They will
actually get curious if you
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throw an apple close to them and
they'll come up and eat and then
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you bring it closer and closer
and close. Finally, you hold it
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out. Well that morning that
you saw that elk, there were
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were actually five mowing the
lawn there and I went out and
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talked to them and they just
kept eating and they'd look at
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me and didn't run away. Then I
opened the garage door to go to
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work. The garage door is very
noisy. I thought well that will
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scare them. It didn't scare them
I drove the car out, closed the
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door; that didn't scare them.
Drove away. They were all there
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So, that's kind of the way it's
going to be in heaven. The Bible
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says the animals are afraid
of us now because of the sin of
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Adam... The fear of you and the
dread of you. But in heaven I
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think you're going to get
to work with these animals, the
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deer and the elk and I
think it's just going to be a
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fantastic place. But I want to
share with you some pictures of
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tree houses now. Kids, how would
you like a tree house like this?
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Would that be incredible having
a tree house like that. Wouldn't
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that be cool. That's kind of
a fantasy. Looks like a fantasy
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design but we've got some other
tree houses that are not. This
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is going to be a fantastic tree
house. Look at that. How would
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you like to live in something
that? Wouldn't that be cool?
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The ultimate Swiss Family
Robinson tree house. Here's
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another tree house that is very
modern looking. Wouldn't that
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be cool living in that? We've
got one more coming up here.
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This is a very modern one.
Do you know that God gave Ellen
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White a vision of something like
this, Spiritual Gifts, 52. She
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said I saw the most beautiful
houses that had the appearance
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of silver. Does that look like
a silver-appearing house? I saw
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the most beautiful houses that
had the appearance of silver
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supported by four pillars set
with pearls which were the most
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glorious to behold which were
the inhabitances of the saints.
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I have probably 30 pictures
of tree houses and they're all
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supported on pillars; almost all
of them are on pillars. Here she
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saw these trees. Imagine a tree
house in the country, what it
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would be like to have the
beauties of the sunrise and the
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sunset and the fresh air in the
mountains, and the birds singing
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and all that. I'm going like wow
heaven is an incredible place.
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She says, human language
is inadequate to describe the
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reward of the righteous. It
will be known only to those who
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behold it. No finite
mind can comprehend the glory
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of the paradise to come. Folks
if you want a tree house in
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heaven the Bible says
we're going to build houses and
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inhabit them. In fact, I think
you may have three houses in
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heaven because Jesus says,
in my Father's house are many
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mansions. Jesus said I go to
prepare a place for you and the
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Bible says you're going to build
houses and inhabit them. So, it
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could be that you have three
houses in heaven, but a tree
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house like you saw on the screen
wouldn't that just be incredible
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Our next image is of our earth
and here is our earth in space.
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What holds the earth up? What
if you live in Australia on the
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bottom of the earth. Remember
the kids singing this song, what
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holds me up when the world's
upside down. Well it's so big
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it's so big and so small
actually, compared to the sun
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and other things, it's very,
very small. The Bible has a lot
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to say about the earth. Jesus
created the earth. By him were
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all things made by him and
without him was not anything
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made. They used to think that
the earth was flat. It looks
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flat doesn't it when you walk
outside. Until we got a space
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craft. You get in the space
craft; all of a sudden you see
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the earth as round. The Bible
said that correctly that God
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sits over the circle of the
earth. They used to think it was
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flat. Some religions taught
that the earth was supported on
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the backs of turtles. Somebody
said well what's the turtle
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stand on? Well another turtle.
They said it was turtles all the
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way down. Some religions taught
it was on the back of elephants.
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Used to believe it was supported
on the back of Charles Atlas.
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God said he hangs the earth on
nothing and here it is in space
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Wow, wow, how is it held
on nothing? Well, it's gravity
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isn't it that holds the earth as
it travels around the sun. Earth
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is just the perfect place for us
to live. If it were any closer
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to the sun you would not be
comfortable because of the heat.
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If it were farther away it would
be just too cool to have life
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and to grow food and so forth.
So God placed the earth so
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perfectly. The spinning of the
earth is so critical. It just
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turns the right amount. It turns
every 24 hours. If it turned
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like every 12 hours, you would
just scorch to death with the
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temperature. Imagine if sun came
out and stayed in the sky for a
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long time, you'd be overheated
and then when it got dark it
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would get so cold. The
temperature drops very fast.
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Up in the mountains where I live
it really drops when the sun
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goes down because the heat
escapes from the earth. So,
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there are so many things
about the earth that are just
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perfectly designed. It didn't
just happen. It shows that we
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have a creator that had us in
mind and did just a perfect job
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of creating our earth. We
could go take a look at the next
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graphic, which we have, Saturn
and Jupiter, Uranus Neptune. Now
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you see the little earth down
there. We could fit a million
earths inside of our sun
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About 1300 would fit inside
Jupiter. We see Saturn with
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those beautiful rings. Those
rings extend out about 170,000
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miles. If you put the rings on
the edge of our earth it would
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almost reach out to the
moon. Then the two blue ones are
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Uranus and Neptune. You wouldn't
want to live on any of thee.
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These are all perfectly placed
for us. You would not survive on
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Venus; you would die within
minutes. On Mars, you couldn't
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last very long without all kinds
of special apparatus to make you
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comfortable and keep you warm.
You wouldn't be able to grow any
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food. Mercury would be hot on
one side and cold on the other
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side. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
and Neptune, we don't even know
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if you have a hard surface, if
you could put a chair there or
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if you could walk on it, because
they're gas giants. We just have
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gas and we can't see below the
clouds so we don't know what is
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there. On our next graphic,
we have a galaxy. Now our sun is
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part of a hundred billion stars,
more stars than you can count.
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This is kind of what a galaxy
looks like. It's just all these
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stars and our sun, which is just
a star, it's just an average
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star, nothing special about our
sun and it's located on the edge
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in the Orion arm. It's about
two-thirds of the way out from
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the center of the galaxy in
what's known as the Orion arm of
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the Milky Way galaxy. And that's
a perfect place for us to be
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too. So we see it's designed for
us. We have coming up a graphic
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that might be a little fun
exercise. You can impress your
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friends here if you like because
if you see the list here, you
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could write your name so that
you could be found any place in
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the universe, anybody could find
you. So, you'd start first with
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your name, put your name on the
first line. You might want to
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write this down. The second line
you put your street address,
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then you put your city, then you
put your zip code and whatever
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state or country you're in. In
this case, I'm in Illinois and
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the country would be United
States. The continent would be
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North America. The planet would
be Earth and our star would be
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the sun and our location in the
galaxy would be the Orion arm
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of the Milky Way galaxy and the
galaxy would be the Milky Way.
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Which galaxy cluster? Our galaxy
is part of the Virgo cluster
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that we call the local cluster.
So, that would be something fun
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you might enjoy, writing your
address so anybody, any place
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in the universe, could find you.
The next graphic coming up is
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what's known as the Jewel Box.
The Jewel Box is a star cluster
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of hundreds of stars. It's just
a beautiful, beautiful sight and
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they've named it the Jewel Box.
When I think of that, you know
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the Bible talks about his jewels
in Malachi 3:17; he's going to
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make up his jewels. As I go to
speak in churches I often do the
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children's story and we use this
for the children's story, the
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pictures that are coming up now.
But we show the Jewel Box and we
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sing the little song and I'd
like to try to sing it to you.
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Many of you probably have heard
it and would join in with me and
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it goes something like this:
When He cometh, When He cometh,
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To make up His jewels. All
His Jewels, precious jewels,
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His loved and His own.
Like the stars of the morning,
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His bright crown adorning.
They shall shine in their beauty
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Bright gems for His crown.
He will gather, He will gather,
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the gems for His
kingdom. All the pure ones,
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All the bright ones.
His loved and His own.
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Then the chorus: Like
the stars of the morning,
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His bright crown adorning,
They shall shine in their beauty
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Bright gems for his
crown. And the third verse:
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Little children, Little children
Who love their Redeemer,
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Are the jewels, precious
jewels His loved and His own.
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Like the stars of the morning,
His bright crown adorning,
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They shall shine in their beauty
Bright gems for His crown.
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Yes, you can be Jesus' jewels.
He probably can't wait to show
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you the beautiful things of the
heavens. I think we're going to
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get to travel with Jesus. I bet
he just can't wait to take you
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to show you the wonderful things
he has created. As we move on in
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our program the next graphic
we have... Have you ever looked
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up in the sky and you saw
a cloud, something that maybe
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looks like a bunny rabbit? We
often see clouds that look like
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different things. Here, coming
up, is a picture of a fish and
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this would be... You could
say well that looks like a red
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snapper fish in the sunset; a
beautiful sight to see, but it
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looks like a fish. Then we have
another one that looks like a
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feather. And it really does,
doesn't it, look like a feather.
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Then we have one that looks like
a hummingbird and low and behold
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when we look through a telescope
we see things that look like
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these little creatures. In the
next case you'll see a butterfly
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and we have a butterfly wing
nebula. I put together 275 of
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these pictures for the Michigan
Conference who wanted to teach
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their Adventurers astronomy.
Isn't that a beautiful picture
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of the butterfly wing nebula.
Just absolutely breathtaking.
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That is actually an exploding
star and we have hundreds of
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those in the sky. As I mentioned
before we believe, and what
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seems to be true, is we have
these stars that are so big like
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Betelgeuse in Orion is a billion
miles in diameter. And these
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biggest stars like Betelgeuse in
Orion and Canis Majoris and some
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of these, they think will be
like a balloon. You blow up a
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balloon, it gets too big, it
pops and it becomes very bright
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for a few weeks, a few months
maybe. So, gas goes out in
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opposite directions. Now the
butterfly nebula what we believe
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is that there is a very intense
magnetic field in the center
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here that caused it to go
just like a balloon, you know a
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circle. Actually, the magnetic
field in the center of that star
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would cause it to shoot
out in opposite directions
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symmetrically. In fact, you
could go take a look if your
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kids are on the internet, look
up the Van Allen belts, because
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our earth has a magnetic field.
That magnetic field of our earth
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protects us. It protects us from
radiation from the sun. If you
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look at the Van Allen belts, the
magnetic field around our earth
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makes the lobes symmetrical just
like the butterfly wing nebula
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and some of the other exploding
stars that we have that go out
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symmetrically in opposite
directions. That's why when this
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one exploded it didn't just go
like a big circle but went out
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in opposite directions. So,
we see that from time to time.
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There are quite a number of them
that are that way, the butterfly
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wing nebula is another one that
does it. In our next graphic, we
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have some little mice. Somebody
used that and called the mice
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galaxies. So here you see two
galaxies in the next image and
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they have tails, that one has
a long tail on it. So, they have
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been named the mice galaxies.
Now a galaxy is outside of our
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Milky Way. A galaxy is something
way, way out in space. We're
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talking 30 million years where
it would take like 30 million
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years to get here from that
because it's so, so far away.
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We can't even comprehend
what that would mean. It's just
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really, really far away. The
next image we have is actually
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of a Chevy Nova and there's just
a regular Chevy Nova but the
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next one is a Super Nova, it's
a hot rod Nova and if you're
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familiar with anything in space
you know that's a term we use.
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So, the next image that we have
is a super nova in our galaxy.
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A super nova would be one of
those stars that explodes and
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that I mentioned before. We
believe the stars, but big ones,
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Canis Majoris, 1.8 billion
miles in diameter, Arcturus is a
00:24:12.85\00:24:16.75
really big star, Antares is a
really big star. We believe they
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burn up their fuel and they
get bigger and bigger and bigger
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like a balloon. They get so big
they can't contain themselves
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and we get this big explosion.
So, that would be a super nova.
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People have asked if a star
exploded what does that have to
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do with heaven and God and
a creator? There are a couple
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scriptures that might help us
understand. We don't know when
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that exploded, if that was part
of the curse. Because when Adam
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sinned we had curses, didn't
we? But if you look at Hebrews 1
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verse 11, it says of old he laid
the foundations of the earth
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and the heavens are the works of
his hands, they will perish. The
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heavens are going to perish but
God will endure. So, it says yea
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they shall wax old like a
garment, as a vesture shalt thou
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change them. So, the Bible talks
about the heavens perishing, it
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talks about like as a vesture
shalt thou change them. This is
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a vesture. In King James, a
jacket would be like a vesture.
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It casts off its outer shell and
there's always a star remaining
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in the center. Well we need
to move along. The next image we
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have is the tadpole and we have
a galaxy that kind of looks like
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a tadpole. It's called the
tadpole galaxy. That's kind of
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a cool picture. The next image
we have is of sombrero. We have
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a galaxy which has been named
the sombrero galaxy which is we
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believe probably the biggest
galaxy we have out there. They
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think this may have up to 800
billion stars. There's kind of a
00:25:51.78\00:25:55.58
dark lane through the
center. Sombrero galaxy has a
00:25:55.62\00:25:58.65
designation M104. To look at
that, it's in the spring of the
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year, it's in the area called
the realm of the galaxies.
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The next picture is a horsehead.
Then we have a horsehead in
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Orion. Here's the horsehead
picture in Orion. This is
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located right on the bottom belt
star of Orion, right below...
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If you look at the belt of Orion
he has the shoulders and three
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stars in his belt. The horsehead
is right there at the very
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bottom of the belt star.
Next image is an ant and we have
00:26:25.35\00:26:29.18
what is called the ant nebula.
Now nebula means just a cloud.
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It's the ant cloud. There
are four basic types of nebulae.
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The nebulae are bright because
they're hot, some because they
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have hot stars in them. Then
we have the dark ones like the
00:26:40.80\00:26:43.97
horsehead which is a dark
nebula. Then we have these
00:26:44.00\00:26:45.97
exploding stars which we
call planetary nebulae. The next
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image is of an Eskimo and we
have a star that looks like an
00:26:50.94\00:26:56.08
Eskimo and the next image
shows the Eskimo nebula from an
00:26:56.11\00:27:00.65
amateur telescope. This is what
you'd see if you had a decent
00:27:00.68\00:27:04.69
telescope. You see a little
Eskimo there. He's got a cold
00:27:04.72\00:27:08.69
nose. You see his lips and he's
got a parka on. But the Hubble
00:27:08.72\00:27:11.36
did a much better job of
photographing the Eskimo. That's
00:27:11.39\00:27:15.83
really an incredible image that
the Hubble gives us from the
00:27:15.86\00:27:19.07
Eskimo nebula and we have
hundreds of these in our Milky
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Way galaxy. That's about all
the pictures we can show you for
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today because the time for the
show is just about over. But I
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want to thank you for watching
Heaven's Declare. We have a
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whole series of programs you may
want to order. But we long for
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the day when Jesus is coming to
take us to see these beautiful
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things he's created. Thank you
for watching Heaven's Declare.
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We'll see you next time.
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