Greetings Dear Reader,
If you do not already know what ARP 273 is you will. When I first saw the image of it I was immediately
transported to a night during my ninth summer.
I was in a place with no light pollution and clear skies. It was overnight camping in a vast field.
ARP 273 - Hubble Space Telescope |
The sky erupted with so many blazing stars. Several shooting stars spent their brief brilliant
lives to draw out my wonder. It was the
first time I felt the vastness of the universe.
I felt so small and so vast all at once.
When I read Thomas Traherne many years later I found his view of stars
to echo my own.
Century 1:34 Would one
think it possible for a man to delight in gauderies like a butterfly, and
neglect the Heavens? Did we not daily see it, it would be incredible. They
rejoice in a piece of gold more than in the Sun; and get a few little
glittering stones and call them jewels. And admire them because they be
resplendent like the stars, and transparent like the air, and pellucid like the
sea. But the stars themselves which are ten thousand times more useful, great,
and glorious they disregard. Nor shall the air itself be counted anything, though
it be worth all the pearls and diamonds in ten thousand worlds. A work of God
so Divine by reason of its precious and pure transparency, that all worlds
would be worth nothing without such a treasure.
ARP 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies in the Andromeda
constellation. The forces of the
intertwining galaxies imitate tidal like movement on a literally cosmic
scale. This vast beauty, brought clearly
to our attention by the Hubble Telescope captures the great magic and majesty of
the cosmos.
We see the stars in moments.
Sometimes we venture out to see them and sometimes we are surprised when
they impose their beauty upon us. When I
make the time to notice I am reminded of the magic in those moments. I am reminded that the heavens declare the
glory of God loudly and clearly. They
declare it magically every moment.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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