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John Sumwalt For Agri-View
Aug 11, 2024
Aug 11, 2024

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The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever-changing. It’s a region where young stars are forming – or have barely burst from their dusty cocoons as they continue to form.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

The James Webb Space Telescope is designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its extreme-resolution and extremely sensitive instruments allow observation of the first stars and the formation of the first galaxies. The telescope was launched Dec. 25, 2021.

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Astronomy professor Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, famously wrote, ‘I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But … I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.’

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John Sumwalt For Agri-View

I, John Sumwalt, believe in God! It’s the reality in which, as the Apostle Paul wrote, “I live and move and have my being.”

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John Sumwalt mug Agri-View — John Sumwalt

John Sumwalt is a retired pastor and the author of “Shining Moments: Visions of the Holy in Ordinary Lives” and “How to Preach the Miracles.” Email johnsumwalt@gmail.com or call 414-339-0676 to reach him.