The Eye of God........

I received this photo in an email today and it made me "catch" my breath. According to the e-mail "this photo is a very rare one, taken by NASA. This kind of event occurs once in 3000 years. This is a picture NASA took with the Hubble telescope, called "The Eye of God".

In truth: This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope combined with the wide view of the Mosaic Camera on the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz. The image shows a fine web of filamentary "bicycle-spoke" features embedded in the colorful red and blue ring of gas. At 650 light-years away, the Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth. A planetary nebula is the glowing gas around a dying, Sun-like star. Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO) (information obtained from NASA - National Aeronautics & Space Administration website).

Real or not, it makes one wonder and perhaps even hope for the possibility of it's existance, real or imagined. At a time and season when the world seems to be trying so hard to refuse, deny banish God from our society and everyday lives, it leaves me with a glimmer of hope that possibly suggests otherwise. The infinate possibilities of what surrounds us on this earth and beyond is truley amazing and beyond my imagination.........