STELLAR NURSERY

I've been beavering away on the family tree. Not much to report yet except some folks that I've found are great examples of you can choose your friends but you are stuck with family. Haven't found any out and out horse thieves but those who rebelled and those who were targets of rebellion are popping up pretty regularly. If you've noticed when all else fails I head for NASA'a astronomy page. 

Image credit to Cesar Blanco Gonalez. This is the Orion Nebula.  The clouds of gas are stellar nurseries. The nubla is studded with hot blue white stars and the shot has been enhanced to bring out the colors of hydrogen, oxygen and sulpher . Three of the most comoon elements in the cosmos.

Blue white stars burn hot and fast. Their lives can be measured in millions of years, not billions and when they nova they seed the universe with all the building blocks needed to buiild a planet it the conditions are right. The middle ages churches told stories in paint and colored glass. Telescopes like Hubble record stories in burning stars and clouds of dust.