Image Credit & Copyright: Phil Plait
(Bad Astronomy Blog,
Slate)
Explanation:
Sometimes your eclipse viewing goes bad in an interesting way.
While watching and photographing
last Thursday's
partial solar eclipse, a
popular astronomy blogger
suffered through long periods of
clouds blocking the Sun.
Unexpectedly, however, a nearby cloud began to show a rare effect:
iridescence.
Frequently part of a more familiar solar
corona effect,
iridescence
is the diffraction of sunlight around a thin screen of
nearly uniformly-sized
water droplets.
Different colors
of the sunlight become deflected by slightly
different angles
and so come to the observer from slightly different directions.
This display,
featured here, was quite bright and exhibited an unusually broad range of colors.
On the right, the
contrails of an airplane are also visible.
Should I live to be a hundred years old, may I never stop marvelling at the wonders of God's creation and HIS greatness. Today's post on NASA's picture of the day put a new perspective on iridescent clouds for me. I just couldn't help but wonder... what could possibly be better than this? Then, I remembered- Christian's are!!!!
Ephesians, Chapter 2 (NAS)
1
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
3
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
4
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved ),
6
and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7
so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9
not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
God took sinful men and through the power of Jesus' sacrifice has made all who obey the Gospel his workmanship. I like the way the Hebrew writer (probably Paul) puts it...
Hebrews, Chapter 5 (NAS)
7
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.
8
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
9
And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation,
What could be more beautiful than the rainbow above? Christian- go look in the mirror to see something really magnificent!!!