Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven
and a new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away, and
there was no longer any sea.
Is one of God's Tools a Superbubble?
By Hubert Crowell
Science has always held a strong interest for me and I am always amazed when I learn of a new
discovery that may be the instrument of God. Newsweek, January 28, 1980 contained an article
under science about Clouds in Space. I was so taken by the article that I made several copies and
saved them. The article discussed two extraordinary discoveries about these clouds. One
concerned the oldest material ever identified in the universe; the other concerned the most
powerful.
The second discovery caught my attention as it described a supernova, creating a bubble, and as
the bubble over took more stars, the explosions added to the hot gas bubble and left new stars in
its wake. January 16, 2006, press release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory of a
Huge "Superbubble" of Gas Blowing Out of Milky Way again stirred up my interest, as this one
was much closer.
The thought that came to my mind as I read the first article, was if you have a bubble that is
enlarging at near the speed of light, you would not see it until the last second before it over took
you. The light that we observe from space is old and the things that we see may not exist
anymore. This new Bubble is nearly 23,000 light-years from earth. Stated simply the light we
are seeing from this Bubble occurred 23,000 years ago! Our Milky Way Galaxy is about 100,000
light-years across.
A "Superbubble" with a diameter of 1,200 light-years is floating about 6,000 light-years from our
planet at a temperature of 3.5 million degrees Fahrenheit, according to the first article. And more
Superbubbles are being found each year, about Six so far.
Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven
and a new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away, and
there was no longer any sea.
New International Version
In my mind this is a description of what
would happen if a Superbubble over took
the earth and our sun.
NRAO/AUI/NSF
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