These Hubble photos [1] from HubbleSite sum it all up. Studying nature with rigor is a high spiritual calling. In my mind, honoring the scientific method is a much higher calling than cherry-picking vague passages from old books of questionable origin.
The following photo is of the Crab Nebula, taken by the Hubble telescope.
Go to HubbleSite [2] for a high-res version of this Hubble photo and more than 1,000 others.
From Wikipedia [3], we learn that the Crab Nebula was first observed in 1731 by John Bevis, and corresponds to a bright supernova that was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054. Located at a distance of about 6,300 light years [4] (2 kpc [5]) from Earth, the nebula [6] has a diameter of 11 ly (3.4 pc) and is expanding at a rate of about 1,500 kilometres per second.
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