Astronomy - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/astronomy/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:19:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong? https://bahaiteachings.org/is-everything-we-know-about-the-universe-wrong/ https://bahaiteachings.org/is-everything-we-know-about-the-universe-wrong/#comments Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84681 The Big Bang: Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong?For more than a century now, science has assured us that our universe began about 14 billion years ago with a Big Bang — but some of the newest science...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/is-everything-we-know-about-the-universe-wrong/feed/ 4 How Can an Expanding Universe Be Infinite? https://bahaiteachings.org/how-can-an-expanding-universe-be-infinite/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-can-an-expanding-universe-be-infinite/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84609 How Can an Expanding Universe Be Infinite?Since the dawn of the scientific age, humanity has learned a great deal about our universe — but our slim knowledge parades in front of massive ignorance. Most of the...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/how-can-an-expanding-universe-be-infinite/feed/ 1 How Big — and How Old — Is Our Universe? https://bahaiteachings.org/how-big-and-how-old-is-our-universe/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-big-and-how-old-is-our-universe/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84513 Webb's very first science images released by NASA in July 2022: How Big — and How Old — Is Our Universe?A few months ago, I woke up at 3 a.m., went outside, and watched the Perseid meteor shower for an hour. As those flaming fireballs scored the heavens with their...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/why-do-we-see-ufos-threat/feed/ 4 The Pupil of the Eye: A Cosmic Hole to Unleash Black Girl Magic https://bahaiteachings.org/pupil-eye-cosmic-hole-black-girl-magic/ https://bahaiteachings.org/pupil-eye-cosmic-hole-black-girl-magic/#respond Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=81139 Little Girl: And me, I imagine myself a giantess, so tall I rise above the canopy of any atmosphere like helium. I’m so light but have been trapped underground —...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/pupil-eye-cosmic-hole-black-girl-magic/feed/ 0 We’re All Made of Stars. What Does This Mean Spiritually? https://bahaiteachings.org/we-are-all-made-of-stars-spiritual-meaning/ https://bahaiteachings.org/we-are-all-made-of-stars-spiritual-meaning/#comments Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=70157 Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve appreciated the beauty of starlight. My parents even put stickers of shooting stars and the moon on my ceiling to watch as...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/we-are-all-made-of-stars-spiritual-meaning/feed/ 5 Big History: Vast Space, Eons of Time, and the Purpose of Creation https://bahaiteachings.org/big-history-vast-space-eons-of-time-and-the-purpose-of-creation/ https://bahaiteachings.org/big-history-vast-space-eons-of-time-and-the-purpose-of-creation/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:00:26 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=79909 I just finished a wonderful book about a subject I love: Big History. Unlike the history we learn in school, this type of history focuses on a much larger period:...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/big-history-vast-space-eons-of-time-and-the-purpose-of-creation/feed/ 2 I Used to Watch Cable News. Now I Watch the Universe. https://bahaiteachings.org/used-watch-cable-news-watch-universe/ https://bahaiteachings.org/used-watch-cable-news-watch-universe/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:00:06 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=79111 Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i Faith, asked humanity to “Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in” – but I fear I may have gone...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/used-watch-cable-news-watch-universe/feed/ 1 Is the Universe Ordered or Chaotic? https://bahaiteachings.org/is-the-universe-ordered-or-chaotic/ https://bahaiteachings.org/is-the-universe-ordered-or-chaotic/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:00:05 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=79030 Here’s probably the biggest and most important question science has ever tried to answer: Does the universe have order, or is it essentially chaotic? We humans have pondered that one...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/is-the-universe-ordered-or-chaotic/feed/ 2 In Our Fine-Tuned Universe, Does Life Exist on Other Planets? https://bahaiteachings.org/in-our-fine-tuned-universe-does-life-exist-on-other-planets/ https://bahaiteachings.org/in-our-fine-tuned-universe-does-life-exist-on-other-planets/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:00:45 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=78163 If we all live, as many scientists now believe, in a “fine-tuned universe,” then the universe must have been designed, created, and arranged by a higher and more powerful intelligence....

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