There are times when I simply sit and stare in amazement of
what is out there, at what possibilities lay beyond our yearning grasp. I wonder
at what sights human eyes will never see, what worlds we’ll never know, what
stories lay untold on those far distant shores. Someone asked me recently why I write science
fiction, I simply showed him some images of deep space, and I told him that to
wonder about such things sparks my imagination far more than legends of the
past.
Cosmic Hand Reaches for the Light Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.Slane, et al.
Red represents low-energy X-rays, the medium range is green, and the most energetic ones are colored blue. The blue hand-like structure was created by energy emanating from the nebula around the dying star PSR B1509-58. The red areas are from a neighboring gas cloud called RCW 89.
