INTELLIGENT UNIVERSE

The solar system includes the sun and all those astronomical bodies that, directly or indirectly, are within the sun’s gravitational pull and are revolving around the sun, each in their specific orbit. As far as our understanding goes, there is only one such solar system in the known universe in which our Earth is located. But astronomers think there could be a million more such solar systems in the universe.

A ‘galaxy’ is the term used for a collection of stars that move around in a particular system. Our galaxy is the Milky Way, which appears as a long white stream in the night sky. It contains approximately one hundred billion stars, and our solar system is in it. There are more than 100 billion such galaxies in the vast observable universe, and there are several billion stars in each galaxy, many of which are huge.

The Sun orbits the centre of its galaxy at 175 miles per second, carrying all its planets, including Earth, on its celestial plate. The solar system is so vast that despite the Sun’s rapid journey, it takes our solar system 200 million years to complete one orbit around the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. Such spiral galaxies with more than one trillion stars are found in the vast universe, and within each galaxy, there are numerous massive stars.

Inside a galaxy, stars are located at vast distances from each other. The star nearest to our Sun is so far away that it takes its light more than four years (travelling at the speed of 1,86,000 miles per second) to reach the Earth!

Now, we must ask ourselves: What has been preserving and maintaining such a vast system of astronomical bodies in such perfect order and arrangement for billions of years without any deviation whatsoever? According to astronomers, it is the mutual attraction between these bodies.

It is strange that man understands the meaning of ‘the mutual attraction of astronomical bodies’ but cannot understand the meaning of the word ‘God’ that stands for the Being behind this astounding phenomenon!