Astronomy
Modern Astronomers all agree that there is a huge opening in Orion, which is perhaps more than 16,740,000,000,000 miles in diameter. The diameter around the earth's orbit is 186.000,000 miles which distance in itself is incomprehensible to man - yet, the opening into this heavenly cavern of Orion is 90,000 times as wide. In other words we could put 30,000 solar systems like our own, with a sun in the middle of each, cross the entrance of the opening in the North, and still have room to spare•
But surpassing the immensity of its size is its exquisite beauty and the luminous colors that are unlike any upon earth. Professor Larkin of Mt. Lowe Observatory gives us the following description of it: "These negatives (photographs) reveal the opening and interior of a cavern so stupendous that our entire solar system would be lost therein. I have watched it since the days of youth in many telescopes of many powers. But never dreamt that the central region is the mouth of a colossal cave. Human speech is impotent. Pen of writer and brush of artist alike are lifeless and inert in any attempt to describe this interior.
In the depths of the Orion nebula are torn, twisted and riven masses of shining glass, irregular pillars, columns of stalactites in glittering splendor and stalagmites from the mighty floor. The appearance is like that of Light, shining and glowing behind Herculean walls of Ivory and Pearl and studded with millions of Diamond Shining Stars.
There must be some reason why all this grandeur is lavished on this one spot in the Heavens. The colors are a hue peculiar to Orion and studded around the opening so that they appear as a pavement of starry sand. "John saw the Holy City coming down from the God of Heaven." (Rev. 21:l2) Then in Matthew (25:31) we are told that the Son of God shall come in His Glory and All the Holy Angels with Him. No wonder the Astronomers (many of them not religious) say: "They seem to feel as if they were in some Mighty ‘Presence’, while scanning this part of the Heavens; and become speechless before this great outburst of grandeur, extending for trillions of miles through space".
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