National Geographic Space Pictures This Week

How can one not believe in intelligent design when they look at the night sky?   
  Have you ever seen the Helix Nebulae, nicknamed The Eye Of God?  WOW!   
  God must look at pitiful little man, and wonder how they can still deny Him when He is the one Who has given them the capability to find evidence like this.  How on earth, or in the sky can you miss it?!!!!!!!
  Psalm 8:4, "⁴Then I ask, "Why do you care
about us humans?
Why are you concerned
for us weaklings?"

Southern Sky Show

Photograph courtesy NASA

From their vantage point high above Earth, astronauts on the International Space Station were able to capture daybreak (left) and nighttime auroras in a single frame.
The newly released picture, snapped on March 6 over the Indian Ocean, also shows a Russian Soyuz spacecraft (center) and a Progress resupply ship docked at the station.

Green Marble

Photograph by Babak Tafreshi, TWAN

Bright green auroras shimmer over a small Sami village in northern Sweden in a picture taken March 16.
The bubble-like picture was created using an 8mm fisheye lens, allowing the photographer to capture an all-sky view of the northern lights in a single frame.

Planetary Reunion

Photograph courtesy Luc Perrot

Venus (right) and Jupiter appear to meet in the sky over the French island of Réunion in a recently released picture of this month's planetary conjunction.
Also called the evening star, Venus is the brightest planet we can see with the naked eye, due in part to its thick, highly reflective atmosphere and its closeness to Earth.

Next-Gen Astronaut

Photograph courtesy NASA

Controlled from the ground, NASA's Robonaut 2 holds an instrument for measuring air velocity aboard the International Space Station on March 14. The robotic astronaut was handling the device as part of a series of dexterity tests, which included spelling out "Hello, world" in sign language.

Heavenly Lights

Photograph by Oshin D. Zakarian, TWAN

The bright lights of Venus (right) and Jupiter appear to draw closer in the sky over Saint Thaddeus Monastery in Iran on Monday night during last week's planetary conjunction. The two worlds-the brightest we're able to see with the unaided eye-were at their closest on Thursday, separated by only three degrees in the sky, or the width of two fingers at arms' length.
The planets' apparent proximity is an optical illusion-in reality, Venus is nearly 75.9 million miles (122 million kilometers) distant from Earth, and Jupiter sits about seven times farther away, at 524 million miles (844 million kilometers) from Earth.

Standing Guard

Photograph by David Kilabuk, Your Shot

An Inukshuk—a stone figure of a human—bears witness to the northern lights over Nunavut, Canada, on March 7, as seen in a recently released picture.
Such figurines can be found across the Arctic and have been traditionally used by the Inuit for various forms of communication, such as navigational aids, memorials, or markers of animal-migration routes.

Milky Mountain

Photograph by Kae Horng Mau, Your Shot

The soft lights of our Milky Way galaxy flow across the sky over Mount Kinabalu, a mountain peak on the Malaysian side of the island of Borneo, in a picture taken February 27 and released this week.
The mountain reaches 13,435 feet (4,095 meters) above sea level, offering relatively clear views of the night sky from high above the clouds.

  God's best 2 U,       Joy J