Signs of the Quran - Astronomy

All scientists agree that the universe is expanding at a steady, some say increasing , others decreasing rate (, see John Gribbin, "The Birth of Time", Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999, page 206). The Quran describes it in the clear verse above.

At the beginning of this century Edwin Hubble formulated his theory of the expansion of the universe. He based this on the theory of relativity postulated by Albert Einstein. Infrared images taken by the Hubble telescope, which was set up in the orbit in 1995 confirm Hubbell's theory directly by showing a red shift in distant galaxies.

This red light indicates that it has little energy and must be coming from sources that are moving away. So distant galaxies, that lie 14 Billion light years away, show us, that the universe is expanding rapidly.

Scientists think that this might go on forever. It has been doing so for 14 billion years. The picture shows a deep-space view from the Hubble Telescope which was taken by pointing the telescope to an apparently dark spot for 10 days and collecting the data. Even in that region billions of receding galaxies are found.