"Worlds Without Number"

" O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds thy hands have made. I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then, sings my soul, my Savior God to thee, how great thou art".
This was the opening song we sang to a presentation given by Robert K Wilson. How appropriate!
He is the project manager for SPITZER at jet propulsion labs, a contractor for NASA. This man and the amount of knowledge he holds is absolutely amazing!!
He has been involved in the 1976 Viking project that landed on Mars, Magelan, Galeleo, And Casini that went to Saturn.
SPITZER is one of four of the "great observatories". With the other three being the famous Hubble, Chandra, and compton. The hubble shows images in actual form, Chandra and Compton show images in X-ray form and Spitzer shows them in infra-red.
Herschel discovered infra-red when he was attempting to measure the temperature of the various colors of the rainbow. He noticed that one of the temperature markings had been jostled and was just outside the red line giving us infra-red.
The amazing thing about being able to see in infra-red, especially in space, is that you are able to see through all the clouds and space debris to see things that were never seen before because of the visual blockings.
Because of this advancement they are now able to see the actual evolutions of stars occuring.
The outside of Spitzer has to be maintained at -400 degrees farenheit so that it is cooler than the image it is focusing on.
He had slides that showed amazing pictures of stars that have never been seen brfore by the general public.
He also mentioned that the number of stars and/or planets is 70 sixtillion, that is a 7 with 26 zeros after it (or 700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, sorry just wanted to see what it looked like). To put that in perspective, if you were to take every grain of sand that is on the earth, it would still not be equal in number.
I loved listening to this man. He is so passionate and so knowledgable that I was left wondering what it would be like to sit and listen to him randomly talk about all the things he must know.
The best part was he tied these findings to things that we find in the scriptures.
* "And where it possible that man could number the particles of the earth, yea, millions of earths like this, it would not be a beginning to the number of thy creations" Moses 7:30
* "And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof even so shall another come; and there is no end to my works, neither to my words". Moses 1:38
* " But only an account of this earth, and the inhyavitants thereof, give I unto you. For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the word of my power. And there are many that now stand, and innumerable are they unto man; but all tings are numbered unto me, for they are mine and I know them". Moses 1;35
And my favorite : " And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose;and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten". Moses 1:32