Cosmic Glitter In the Coalsack

The protoplanetary phase of nebulae sidereal occurs in astral later days before the stage ethereal when cloud impressions like Monets create new star material. At edge of inky Coalsack cloud, nebula Caldwell Ninety-nine, amidst the murk of dusty shroud, PPN stellar redesign with brilliance beauteous endowed near verge of Coalsack’s borderline was seen by Hubble shining bright as thrust through atramentous dark in cryptic interstellar sleight of hand by cosmic Matriarch, who lavishes great Nature’s light of vital sun with living spark. Our Mother Earth her watch shall keep o’er woodlands wild and oceans deep the river vales and mountains steep, o’er stately swans and eagles’ sweep. The laughing brooks on hillsides leap, though loons lament while willows weep. Still humankind seems sound asleep to deeds they sow and what they’ll reap. Yet mindless soils of mires and mucks can sprout a forget-me-not plot, as in the constellation Crux that PPN midst sooty spot is blossoming per starry flux from out the caliginous clot. This vision in our Milky Way, might it portend scenario of what in years, some millions, may be future for the Coalsack’s woe of present dark, when stardust stray will coalesce and set aglow with brightness all the ‘nuggets coal’ in ebon Coalsack, so they flare from gravity’s attractive role in grand combustions here and there, as if were touched by flame the whole until illumined everywhere? ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Explanation: This image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. Caldwell 99 is a dark nebula — a dense cloud of interstellar dust that completely blocks out visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it. The object at the center of the image is a (much smaller) protoplanetary nebula. The protoplanetary nebula (PPN) phase is a late stage in the life of a star in which it has ejected a shell of hydrogen gas and is quickly heating up. This stage only lasts for a few thousand years before the protoplanetary nebula’s central star reaches roughly 30,000 Kelvin. At this point, the central star is producing enough energy to make its surrounding shell of gas glow, becoming what’s known as a planetary nebula.