• Question: are all colours shown in the univere such as space?

    Asked by ramz555 to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by jess4coop.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      We see all the colours of the rainbow in space, and even ones more than that! If our eyes could detect them you’d see x-rays, gamma rays, infrared, ultraviolet, microwaves and radiowaves too!

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      The universe is pretty much endless, and contains absolutely everything in it, so if you look for long enough, you’re sure to find the colour you’re looking for.

      Did you know that scientists added up all the colours in the Milky Way and found that it really was a kind of white colour: “the colour of fresh snow, an hour after dawn”!

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      There are even stars which have every possible colour – their colour basically just set by their temperature….

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      Yes, but to see some of them, we have to send telescopes into space to see them all because otherwise some colours (and wavelengths of light) get absorbed by the atmosphere. But we’re also lucky that the colours that the eye can see are the same which the atmosphere is transparent to.

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