The Idaho Falls and the Washington D.C. visitor's centers are hosting an amazing exhibit this summer called "Heavenly Majesty", which is a display of photographs from the NASA Hubble Telescope. The pictures captured only a fraction of the greatness and wonder of the universe and of God's great power.
At the exhibit they had descriptions of each photograph. Here is the description of the "Eagle Nebula", which corresponds with the photo on the bottom left.
This is a picture of the information they posted by the photograph.
I walked away knowing that we are certainly surround with "worlds without number"! Merdian Magazine sums it up well went it stated,
"Truly, no mortal hand could have painted these canvases; this is the work of Divinity."
Merdian Magazine had a great article about this exhibit - but the link doesn't work anymore. It explained how the exhibit came to be and why.
(Here is a link to a news clip about this event.)"
The exhibit, entitled ‘Heavenly Majesty: Images of Creation,’ was conceived and developed by Rob Woodhead, a member of the Church from Reston, Virginia who serves on the Cultural Arts Committee of the Visitors’ Center. Although he is not a scientist by profession, Brother Woodhead has long enjoyed astronomy as a hobby. It occurred to him one day how appropriate it would be to show images of the cosmos at the Visitors’ Center, so close to the temple—the place that represents the ordering of the universe.
The committee loved the idea. Brother Woodhead based the exhibit on ten beautiful images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, which has a particularly clear view of the heavens since it orbits the earth beyond the densest layers of the atmosphere. These NASA images are in the public domain, and easily accessible via the Internet, but Brother Woodhead’s vision went far beyond what one could normally see on a home computer screen.
So he and another member of the committee, Ginny Bywater, found a print shop that could print the images on a large scale and at the highest resolution available—the largest being 4 feet by 7 feet. Each of the images was paired with a verse of scripture testifying of God as our majestic Creator.Brother Woodhead emphasized that “an exhibit like this can be held anywhere, in any exhibit hall you could find, but to hold it on the temple grounds gives us an opportunity to provide an environment where people can get free access to the high resolution images…and a spiritually uplifting environment that gives new dimension to the immensity of space.” In few other venues could one so openly and so effectively connect the creations to the Creator." (Meridian Magazine)
Here is the link to the Hubble Telescope - this would be a cool site for your children (or even yourself) to explore!
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