Metamorphosis - NGC6302 (MJ SpaceRace Challenge)

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story: wings of chaos, wings of beauty. h.g. wells awakens from cyber-sleep in the “Chrysalis”. the steam-driven moth-ship is now traveling slowly across an immense nebula. the engine’s motoric rhythm generates the soundtrack to the view from his window. he is enraptured by the beauty of this explosion, frozen in time. it is a transition from a star to a cloud. a transition from a caterpillar to a butterfly. a transition from synthesizer to orchestra. It is a transition from ic42 to Drakonis. Click here to read more about the conclusion and metamorphosis of the ‘ic42 experiment’.

reality: The recent image of the Butterfly nebula (taken by the Hubble telescope) inspired this. I awakened one recent morning, opened the web-browser space portal, and saw this through the window, in all its intensely chaotic beauty. Below is the actual link to the larger image, and NASA’s text on it.

Thank you to everyone who participated in and listened/commented on the amazing entries in the “Macjams Space Race Challenge”. It has been a blast putting this together and seeing all the creativity swirl!

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ic42, aka hakucho, aka Drakonis

The original NASA image that inspired this, and the story, is here: NGC 6302 - Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302 (click here for original image)