Sky watchers have been seeing some fascinating sights this week. The Geminid meteor shower has been occurring. My son came in from hunting the other morning and told me how many "shooting stars" he and friends had seen that morning.

Friday morning observers got to watch Saturn, the second-largest planet in the solar system, move across the sky with the moon.

I walked outside early one morning and as soon as I looked up saw a "shooting star." It appeared green.

One night I saw the "longest" "shooting star" I have ever seen. It had a very long tail behind it and looked picture perfect.

Not only are those who are interested in watching the skies seeing some fascinating things, turns out that dust from a 4 billion-year-old comet has recently shaken up the scientific world.

I would not pretend to begin to understand just how the scientific world has been shaken by the dust from the comet. I have read that one of them said, "Some of it is new. It's not like anything we've ever seen before (Scott Sandford of NASA Ames Research Center).

Other scientists are saying that the material from this comet, which is older than our solar system, could reveal clues about the origin of life and whether it may exist elsewhere in the universe.

All of it causes me to think of these words, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.