Some Startling Facts About God’s Amazing Creation

In one second, our sun emits more energy than man has done since he was created. Our sun is only an average-size star.  One star, the Pistol Star, produces 1 million times the energy of the sun and has 100 times its mass.
Our sun and entire solar system are just a pinpoint, or small speck, in our Milky Way galaxy.Our entire Milky Way galaxy is just a pinpoint, or small speck, in the universe.

There are perhaps 200 billion stars just in our galaxy. If our galaxy was the size of the North American continent, our entire solar system would only be the size of a tea cup.While estimates continue to rise, our galaxy is just one of more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe, many of which are comprised of 200 billion or more stars.

Quasars, at the extreme edge of the known universe, some 1,000 times brighter than our Milky Way galaxy, emit as much energy every second as our sun does in 10 million years.

Astronomers say that the total number of stars in space could equal or surpass the total number of grains of sand on all the seashores of the world, and in most cases they are separated by trillions of miles.

On a smaller scale, there are about 100 trillion cells in the human body and the complexity of the activity inside each cell is equivalent to that of the New York Stock Exchange.
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My own hands stretched out the heavens (Isaiah 45:12).
 
The heavens declare the glory of God (Psalm 19:1).
 
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him (Psalm 8:3).

The information about the universe above is taken from the book, The Top Ten Mysteries of the Bible, by James Bramlett (PublishAmerica, 2006).  Some of the above information has only recently become known because of the orbiting Hubble telescope.