How Great

Stars and sunsets...can you get much more beautiful than this. On my long journey home from a fun, random weekend, I looked out the passenger window to see a gorgeous sunset. The sky had turned a bright orange from this massive ball in the sky which shown upon all the lines from the jet streams. While I was taking in by how amazing this picture was, it made me think about the Louie Giglio tour "How Great is Our God."


Genesis 1:14-19

"And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.' And it was so. God made to great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And there was evening and there was morning--the forth day."


Psalm 33:6 "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth."


It's incredible to think what God has created by the breath of his mouth. I feel like we take those astonishing things around us for granted sometime (like the mountains, stars, sunsets, oceans, and much much more). Here's a look at some numbers and visuals of "How Great" and immeasurable our God truly is.


*A light year is 5.88 trillion miles away. (trillion = one followed by 12 zeros--1,000,000,000,000).

4 Stars
1. Sun

• 10000˚F on the Sun

  93 million miles from Earth (93,000,000)

  8 minutes for light from the Sun to get to Earth

  Sun has a radius 100 times that of the Earth

  If the Earth was a golf ball, the Sun would be 15 feet in diameter.
  -960,000 golf balls could fill the Sun
  *Enough to fill a school bus

2. Betelgeuse (Beteigeuze)

• 527 light years away
• Twice the size of the Earth's orbit around the Sun
• If the Earth were a golf ball, Betelgeuse would be the height of the 6 Empire State Building on top of each other.
  -262 trillion Earth's
  *Could fill up the Superdome 3,000 times with golf balls

3. Mu Cephei (My Cephei)

• 3,000 light years away

  If the Earth were the size of a golf ball, Mu Cephei wold be the length of 2 Golden Gate Bridges end to end.
  -2.7 quad trillion Earth's
  *Million x 1000 = Billion
  *Billion x 1000 = Trillion
  *Trillion x 1000 = Quad trillion

4. VY Canis Majoris

• If our Sun were replaced with VY Canis Majoris, its surface would extend to the orbit of Saturn

  If the Earth were the size of a golf ball, Vy Canis Majoris would be the height of Mt. Everest (6 miles about sea level).
  -7 quad trillion Earth's
  *Cover the state of Texas 22 inches deep in golf balls