An Event for the Stars

 Joey invited Rachel and me to the event of the year -- well, at least in our minds it was!

The Challenger Learning Center hosted the IMAX 3D Launch Party, and all I can say is WOW! We got all prettied up, had gourmet food (Rachel and I BOTH had Sushi for the very first time - I liked it...she didn't), champagne, desserts, celebrity sightings, and then an amazing 3D movie about the Hubble telescope and just how amazing our technology is!

What's even better is how amazing our Creator is! After watching the film, it occurred to me just how complex life really is, and how anyone, ever, could say that God is not responsible for the beauty and complexity of our world and our universe just baffles me.

From "Ask an Astronomer for Kids" Website
The Hubble Space Telescope can see out to a distance of several billions of light-years. A light-year is the distance that light travels in 1 year. Since light has a speed of 186,000 miles per second (light can travel about 7 times around the entire earth in 1 second!), light travels about 5,865,696,000,000 miles in just one year. You can attach 9 more zeros to the end of this to get 1 billion light-years and another one for 10 billion light-years. The farthest that Hubble has seen so far is about 10-15 billion light-years away. The farthest area looked at is called the Hubble Deep Field.

Out of the BAZILLION places the Hubble can peek into, guess what?!

There is only ONE Earth!
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.