'Space'

"He had read of 'Space': at the back of his thinking for years had lurked the dismal fancy of the black, cold vacuity, the utter deadness, which was supposed to separate the worlds. He had not known how much it affected him till now - now that the very name 'Space' seemed a blasphemous libel for this empryean ocean of radiance in which they swam. He could not call it 'dead'; he felt life pouring into him from it every moment. How indeed should it be otherwise, since out of this ocean all the worlds and all their life had come? He had thought it barren: he now saw that it was the womb of worlds, whose blazing and innumerable offspring looked down nightly even upon the earth with so many eyes - and here, with how many more! No: Space was the wrong name."                Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis



The Triangulum Emission Garren Nebula

A "star nursery"

One of NASA's most famous images, "Pillars of Creation" - in the Eagle Nebula

In these regions the formations of gas, dust, and other materials "clump" together to form larger masses, which attract more matter, and eventually will become massive enough to form stars. The remaining materials are then believed to form planets and other planetary system objects.