FAQ/Planets
Planets (what are they, how far, why do they look round)
NASA tells us "Planets" are real. If you look at the footage of "planets", especially footage from the 60s and 70s, the footage is obviously fake. It would take turning a blind eye to believe it. The reality is, people don't think to question it.
People claim planets have phases but there is no photographic progression showing this. Mars never disappears in the sky during it's "dark phase", all planets should be observed doing this from the ground disappearing for long periods of time. But they don't. They shine brilliantly in the sky. You can see these planets every night if you wish, regardless of what NASA says.
What the Bible says about the planets
Jude 1:13 - They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
The book of Enoch says:
And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west. And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light. And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order (prescribed). And these shall alter their orbits and tasks, And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners, And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them, [And they shall be altered from all their ways], Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods. And evil shall be multiplied upon them, And punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.
Considering all the planets are named after gods, you can see why Enoch was excluded from the Catholic blessed "Canon", (the currently circulated bible).
Origin of the word "planets"
It might be worth adding that the English word "planets" is borrowed from the Greek πλανῆται (planáō, “to wander”) + -της (-tēs, masculine agent noun suffix)
πλᾰνήτης • (planḗtēs) masculine (genitive πλᾰνήτου);
- wanderer, vagabond
- (astronomy) planet
- (medicine) a fever that comes in irregular fits
How far away are the planets?
We all know that a light, such as a candle or a streetlight, looks dimmer the farther away from it we get. The question of how much dimmer it looks was answered a long time ago (The Inverse-square law of light).
This activity gives an easy way to repeat that discovery. Students use a simple light source and measure its brightness on a piece of graph paper at different distances. Then, they graph the data and discover the mathematical relationship between brightness and distance.
Once you understand this relationship, now you can now understand how astronomers used this knowledge to assume the distances to stars and planets. By assuming the size and brightness of the planet or stars, they can guess the distance. That's how far the planets are! A circular reasoning assumption that supported the heliocentric religion.
How far they really are is unknown. We don't know how large they are, how bright they are, or how far away they are.
Why do planets look round?
Any shape of light, if it were far enough away will look round. Just because the planets look spherical, it doesn't mean they are round.
Sometimes our eyes can deceive us. Objects that appear spherical could be actually be concave, or flat and shaded. [1]
