The Vastness of Creation

If we zoom out from planet Earth to 1,000 light years, you can see every observable. What—on the surface—seems to be just a cluster of white dots in the sky.

If you zoom out to 100,000 light years, you can see all of the stars in the entire Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy alone is home to more than 100 billion stars and 100 billion planets! 

Zoom out to 10 million light years and you see our local group of galaxies, 54 in total.  

Zoom out to 110 million light years and you see the Virgo Supercluster, a  grouping  of at least 100 cluster galaxies like our own. 

Zoom out to 520 million light years and you see the  Laniakea  Supercluster, home to over 100,000 galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lost in the vastness of space. 

And if you zoom out to 100 billion light years, you see the entire observable universe. 

Starting to feel overwhelmed yet?

Well, guess what?

That’s not even half a percent of what  scientists’  think is out there. 

Alright, let’s zoom back in.

In this observable universe, there are somewhere around 2 trillion individual galaxies, each with around 100 billion stars, giving us more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on planet Earth!    

 And these stars, powered by nuclear fusion, give off incredible amounts of energy! 

Let’s put it this way: our star, the sun, is considered a smaller star. At any moment, it gives off around 360 septillion (that’s 360,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) watts of energy. The sun gives off enough energy to supply our electrical power needs for over a million years every single second. 

Another star in our Milky Way galaxy, the Pistol  Star, produces 10 million times more energy than the sun and gives off as much energy in six seconds as the sun does in an entire year. 

And then there’s the quasar stars.

These stars are so powerful, just one can outshine our entire galaxy. In other words, the Sun, the Pistol Star, and the 100 billion other stars in our Milky Way are all dwarfed in energy by one quasar star.   

The point (if you’re still with me)?

The heavens are vast. The heavens, from our vantage point, appear to be this empty space of nothingness. And yet, the heavens are jam packed with all of these stars radiating unfathomable amounts of energy!

And all of this goes to show that this universe could not have been created on accident. That there’s a Divine Orchestrator who put all of this together. A Being so vast, so great, and so powerful that we cannot even fathom—physically—all of the matter that exists.

Friends, that Creator is God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Elohim, the Great I AM.

His creation magnifies His presence. The invitation to us is to simply pay attention.

Do you see it? Are you willing to appreciate it?

If so, I think you’ll be amazed at what you find.