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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.