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The Sun: with a reading from Psalm 19

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"The Sun", is a beautiful mixture of science and faith. NASA provides the science with incredible close-up images of the Sun, solar flares, a total eclipse, and almost liquid-like video of particles streaming out into the solar system. A reading from the Bible puts the imagery in context, with the first six verses of Psalm 19 giving the images meaning and grandeur.

Reading:

The first six verses of Psalm 19 (King James version) are read by Nicolas Rothwell, an author now based in northern Australia. The Psalm reads:

1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it:
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Captions:

1) An illustration of the Ptolemaic cosmos over a Hubble image of the dust clouds of IC2944
2) NASA video of the Sun from 2006
3) Flares as imaged by NASA's Soho Sun observation satellite
4) Detail from the frontpiece of the 'Harmonia Macrocosmica' of Andreas Cellarius. It was a 200-page 'atlas of the heavens' written in Latin in 1661
5) The transit of Mercury from November 8th 2006, courtesy of NASA
6) Solar prominence from Soho, courtesy of NASA
7) Eclipse from March 28th 2006, courtesy of NASA
8) Shadow of the Moon from March 28th 2006, courtesy of eumetsat
9) Eclipse 'diamond ring' effect from March 28th 2006, courtesy of NASA
10) Images from the Sun's surface courtesy of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, released in late 2006
11) Coronal Mass Ejection and particle storm of July 14th, 2000. Courtesy of NASA
12) Comet passes the Sun, courtesy of NASA
13) Page from the 'Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences' published in 1728
14) The Sun imaged by Soho
15) Original photgraph by FrontierMultimedia
16) A 19th century woodcut by an unknown artist. A translation of the original French caption reads: 'A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet.' Glowing Cross is original video by FrontierMultimedia.

 
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