Every morning I get an email with an amazing, shape defying nebula.  Clouds of cosmic dust surround stars, scattering and spraying luminous colors.  An interstellar light show.

There are also dark nebulae, extremely cold and dense, filled with exotic chemistry. Opaque, known only by the heat of hidden stars.  Holes in the sky.

Within these dark nebulae, magnetic forces play with gravity.  Eventually gravity takes hold, density overwhelms, burning heat intensifies.  Gas collapses in free fall, chaos reigns, grains of dust form planets around newborn stars.

A nebula shines bright.

DARKNESS

Nothing is obscure
The appearance of darkness
Unquestioning depth.