MidnightCall Magazine
In this issue:
- Before the Last Flood — By Norbert Lieth
- Gaza Flotilla: Aggression or Self-Defense? — By Arno Froese
- Far East AsiaTrendsToday – Part III:Geo-prophecy or Geopolitics? — By Wilfred Hahn
News From Israel MagazineIn this issue:
- The Myth of the Al-Aqsa Mosque: Part 1 — By Herbert Novitsky
- ON THE HORIZON:
- Obama Honors Jewish Heritage Month
- Building an Electronic Human Brain
- ‘Iran Critics Must Get Rid of Nukes,’ Says Turkish PM
- Israel Joins Prestigious OECD Club
- Israel Accepted after Unanimous Vote
- Spy Satellite Successfully Launched
Satellites Launched to Explore Origin of Universe
The European Space Agency launched a telescope and spacecraft on a mission set to explore the creation of the universe.
Herschel, the biggest telescope launched in history, is to study electromagnetic waves, dust clouds and planet-forming discs around stars, as well as ice particles.
The data collected could help answer questions such as what the universe is made of, how it has evolved and the rate at which it is expanding.
The Planck spacecraft will gather data on remaining radiation from the Big Bang, the massive cosmological explosion that led to the formation of stars and planets.
Both blasted off on an Ariane rocket from Kourou, Europe’s launching pad in French Guiana. They will spend the next two to three months making their way to observation positions some 1.5 million kilometers from Earth on its “night side.”
“Herschel and Planck will enable us to go very far back in time, to the origins of our Universe and it is only by better understanding our universe’s overall past that we can help to better define the future of our planet,” the ESA’s director general, Jean-Jacques Dordain said.
The craft will stay in orbit for 21 months, while the telescope will gather data on the formation of planets for up to three years.
Their combined programs cost €1.9 billion – the greatest amount ESA’s science division had ever put on a single rocket.
Herschel and Planck were developed after 20 years of research by an industrial team led by France’s Thales Alenia and including over 100 contractors from 15 countries in Europe and the United States.
http://www.euobserver.com, 15 May 2009
Although scientific knowledge has increased tremendously since the Soviet Union initiated the Space Age on 4 October 1957, with the launching of the first successful satellite Sputnik 1, nothing in reality has changed. The search for the origin of life, the beginning of the universe, the mysterious “big bang” has eluded the scientists of this world.
In opening the Bible and reading the first ten words, we have the answer to the origin of life, the universe and the “big bang”: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). And the last twenty-eight words in the Bible declare the eternal future, “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen” (Revelation 22:20-21).