Purple Saturday & Nebula Space Ventures

Dust and gas lanes give the Purple Star Nebula its name. The red and purple colors of the nebula are present in different regions, and are created by different processes. The bright star AE Aurigae, visible toward the image right, is so hot it is blue, emitting light so energetic it knocks electrons away from surrounding gas. When a proton recaptures an electron, red light is frequently emitted. The purple region's colour is a mix of this red light and blue light emitted by AE Aurigae but reflected to us by surrounding dust. The two regions are referred to as emission nebula and reflection nebula, respectively. This Nebula, officially known as IC 405, lies about 1500 light years distant, spans about 5 light years, and is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of Auriga.

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Thoughts from SPACE & Nebula

Through endless space the mind travels past comprehension to that of pure logic and reason like no other entity. The adventure of thought sojourn faster than light and arrives instantaneously to cerebral neurons. If one cannot prove he can still believe ... as there is fact in the unknown because unknown does eventually become fact. It is just this hunger that creates desire in my loin. Grasp onto the Milky Way and ride the nebula through vast wormholes of conscious bending metamorphosis. Like the butterfly we came from the worm and egg. The parabola graph to ebb and tide reveals destiny, just as we cannot change the past. Pulsar torpedoes and meteor asteroid hybrids join in galaxy dust to spawn each molecule of life ... including sanguine plasma fluids coursing though human vein to vane.