the Horseshoe Nebula in Orion

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;
what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?    Psalm 8:3 & 4



(from my Sunday School lesson this week - - - - - - - I'm utterly amazed!)
The Horsehead Nebula in Orion appears as a pinkish cloud covered in stars reaching up into the heavens, resembling a horse's head.  This gorgeous mass of stars and gases is 1500 light years from Earth, which means that the light we see from it today left the nebula when the Roman Empire still ruled.  At the top of the nebula is a little bump.  That "bump" is a star nursery daily pulsing out new stars bigger than our sun.  The nebula resides in the Orion Nebula in an arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. At least 153 new galaxies are currently forming there.
Want to see more awesome photos from God's Creation?  Go to http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/  They put up a new photo each day and have an archive of photos back to 1995.  Wow!  So much to see... Awe-inspiring and utterly amazing~!