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All the colors of the rainbow
Okay, so the colors of a nebula ARE pretty, but why are they there? Believe it or not, it´s not God painting a picture. The pinkish red color is the color of ionized hydrogen, the blue-green, which when mixed with the pink looks purple, is the color of ionized oxygen, and the blue is light being reflected from nearby stars.
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Name a Star Live Tip: A Thoughtful Extra
Stars have a very defined lifecycle, beginning life as a nebula of loose gas and dust, eventually forming main sequence stars, expanding and growing over time, before finally dying out into a cooling star (a white dwarf), a neutron star, or a black hole. This is not unlike the lifecycle of a human being, which makes name-a-star gifts extremely appropriate for celebrating life’s milestones.
With this in mind, consider named stars as personalized graduation gifts. Think of it as a literal star for a rising star looking to make his or her way in the universe. Star symbolism is already prevalent with graduation. Phrases like "shoot for the stars" are common in yearbooks and encouraging graduation cards.
With a star gift, you can take those phrases a step further. Just like a star, your new graduate is grown and now ready to shine in life, something captured with your thoughtful and symbolic reward.
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Image Stabilized Binoculars
Some of the best astronomic viewing can be done with Image Stabilized binoculars. A Binocular like the Canon 18x50 binocular is a wonderful tool. You can see images over 900 million miles away like the rings arround satern and the moons of Jupiter.
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Name a Star Live Tip: Not all Star Names are Equal
Stars make wonderful personalized gifts, but how you present the gift makes all the difference to the recipient. After all, it’s impossible to personalize a star and wrap it for delivery. Also, simply informing the recipient of the star’s designation doesn’t live up to the gift’s thoughtful potential. This is why you should consider a name-a-star company that includes valuable extras in addition to the star name.
At the very least, the gift package should include a star certificate with the star coordinates clearly printed. A recipient should be able to locate his or her gift star if he or she chooses. A better option would be a framed gift, perhaps containing a picture of the star… something suitable for hanging on the wall as a conversation piece.
The very best name-a-star companies include these features as part of a package. Shop around for the best value before deciding where to name your star. Anyone can name a star, but not all companies can make it real for the recipient.
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Sugar in space
Scientists have discovered the sugar molecule glycolaldehyde in a large cloud of gas and dust near the center of our Galaxy, some 26,000 light-years away. What does this mean for life? Glycolaldehyde combines with other simple sugars to form ribose, which is a component of DNA.
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Name a Star Live Tip: Ways to Enjoy your Valentine's Day Star
If you give or get a personalized Valentine's gifts from a star naming company, there are plenty of ways to enjoy a little romantic stargazing that don’t involve freezing your buns off in the back yard. Does your community have a college observatory or a planetarium? Many offer Valentine's-Day-under-the-stars-type events, offering you a special opportunity to search the stars and enjoy Valentine's food, drink and other activities. In some areas, local hotels offer rooftop stargazing events, which get you above some of the city lights that otherwise make star viewing difficult.
At planetarium events, you may lack the freedom to explore the night sky at your leisure as the organizers probably have the viewing schedule already planned. But any rooftop event could be perfect for finding a certain star if you have a pair of binoculars or telescope handy. Depending on the weather, location of the rooftop event, and constellation-viewing season, you may be even able to spot your gift star.
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Life from Mars
Scientists have found traces of possible bacterial life in a meteorite which came from Mars--ALH 84001. Don´t get too excited... the meteorite is 3.6 billion years old, and the bacteria long dead, turned into fossils that some scientists argue may not be biological at all but shaped coincidently like bacteria.
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Name a Star Live Tip: Binary Stars
Buy a star for someone and you may motivate him or her to learn some cool facts about the stars. For example, did you know scientists estimate nearly half of all the stars are part of binary systems?
Binary stars are basically two stars that orbit around a common location, or a center of mass. Most people don't think of stars orbiting — after all, in our own solar system the planets revolve around the sun. But the sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Binary stars do indeed orbit. They are considered binary stars when their orbits follow something called Kepler's Laws. These laws apply to objects that orbit in a particular way. Binary stars follow each other in orbit around the center of mass, and the center of mass must be a common focus for both stars. Otherwise, they technically may not be binary stars after all, but very close neighbors.
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Recipe for Life
Boiled water, iron and nickel sulfide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide can be combined to create life. All that´s needed? Just add a volcano.
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Bubbles of Nothing
A theory called quantam cosmology is becoming increasingly popular with scientists. In this theory, the universe began as Nothing. There was no Space or Time. But Nothing was unstable and began to decay, forming billions of tiny bubbles, which then became universes. So we are surrounded by millions of parallel universes.
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