God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

This is where God expends most of his energy creating billions and billions of galaxies
Genesis 1:16

And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
Mark 13:25

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Revelation 6:13

He Who brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Psalm 147:4

The Goat Herder's Guide To The Galaxy of biblical times did not understand why the sun would work everyday without consuming itself. Three thousand years later. we discovered fusion.

Our nearest star is our sun:

  • It's 93 million miles away from Earth.
  • It's 333,000 times the size of our planet.
  • It has a diameter of 865,000 miles.
  • It constitutes 99.5% of the mass of our solar system.
  • It has a surface temperature of 5,600 Celsius
  • It has a core temperature of 15,000,000 Celsius
  • It is a ceaseless mass of nuclear (fusion) actiivty
  • It drives our climate and our weather.
  • Without it, the Earth would be a frozen dirt ball.
  • It throws more heat on our planet per hour than we as a species burn in fossil fuels in a year.
  • It delivers 174 petawatts of solar power to our earth every single day (most of it wasted)

It was understood to be a great light simply because those goat herders did not understand fusion.

We are in our infancy in the study of a star. How do we examine a big ball of ongoing fusion that lasts for billions of years?

To date, we have no idea but we are making observations with the Parker Solar Probe.

Our galaxy (one of untold billions), called the Milky Way (because of its appearance), contains billions of such stars but we can only see about 10,000 on a very clear night.

We now understand the concept of billions of galaxies , each containing several hundred billion stars each.

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