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an You Identify These Beautiful right focus. Viewed at a meates aspects of creation
Structures? (See photo). NEWLY magnification of around far smaller than sand
CPUBLISHED IMAGES OF THE 250 times real life, that grains, like the winding,
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE of distant handful of sand is revealed curvaceous symmetry of a
galaxies, perhaps? Creatures discovered to be thousands of tiny, strand of DNA. It also
in the depths of Earth's oceans? Maybe multi-coloured particles of saturates far broader vistas
they are meteor fragments, insect brains, prismatic crystal, volcanic than that of the Horsehead
newfangled Lego pieces, or shells from rock and spiral fragments, Nebula, such as the stun-
exotic crustaceans? w h i c h t i m e a n d t h e ning image that appears
The correct answer is even more mind- elements have jointly after we step away from the
boggling than any of these guesses. These sculpted into striking telescope, and that distant
remarkable objects are ordinary grains of formations. nebula becomes a small,
sand! Last year, for the first time, empty space between the
Under normal circumstances, a handful of sand was photographed in stars of a radiant constel-
sand looks drab and featureless, not much a way that exposes the lation. God is the Author of
more pleasing to the eye than it would be to awesome beauty interlaced beauty, and He wove it
the palate. But all that changes with the into every grain, and the generously into every level
images on this page are a of His creation, from the
few samples of the new macrocosmic to the nano-
photographic technique scopic. Every facet and
developed by University every layer of His physical
College London Professor creation reveals His awe-
Gary Greenberg. some splendour!
But God's masterful artistry - Jeremiah Jacques, The
is hidden not only at the Philadelphia Trumpet,
microscopic level. Beside March 2012.
these images of sand, you P r o f e s s o r
could place telescopic Greenberg's
photographs of the unfa- photographs
thomably vast Horsehead are available
Nebula, and both sets of o n h i s
pictures would embody w e b s i t e ,
equally breathtaking w w w . s a n d
beauty, but on scales so grains.com
distant from each other and in his new
they could not be com- book, A Grain
pared. Beauty also per- of Sand.
