Galaxies
Stars, it seems, are gregarious they like to live together in
groups. These groups are called galaxies.
The number of stars in a typical galaxy is literally astronomical many billions
sometimes over hundreds of billions of stars!
Our own star, the sun, is part of a galaxy.
When we look up at the night sky, all the stars we can see are in the
same galaxy.
We call our own galaxy the Milky Way (or sometimes simply “the
Galaxy3).
Other galaxies appear in the sky as dim fuzzy blobs. Only four are
normally visible to the naked eye.
The Andromeda galaxy (M31) visible in the Northern hemisphere,
the two Magellanic clouds, visible in the Southern hemisphere, and the home
galaxy Milky Way, visible in parts from north and south under dark skies.
There are thought to be billions of galaxies in the universe
comprised of an unimaginably large number of stars.
The vast majority of galaxies are so far away that they are very dim, and cannot
be seen without large telescopes, but there are dozens of galaxies which may be
observed in medium to large sized amateur instruments.
The Andromeda galaxy (M31), the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), the
Sombrero Galaxy
(M104) and many others.
Astronomers classify galaxies according to their appearance. Some
classifications include spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, lenticular
galaxies and irregular galaxies.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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