Dancing Nebula

Serie: Large Format Artworks

Technique: Latex on canvas

Size: 95 x 135 cm

Year: 2007

Nebulae are regions of the interstellar medium made up of gases (mainly hydrogen and helium) and dust.

They have remarkable cosmological importance because they are the places where stars are born due to condensation and aggregation of matter, although on other occasions they are the remains of a star that has died.

Emission nebulae associated with dying or already deceased stars are called planetary nebulae (a name that has nothing to do with real planets, they are the outer layers of the atmosphere of a star of low or intermediate mass that has completed its evolution cycle) or supernova remnants (the material released in the titanic supernova explosion that ends high-mass stars).

The Hubble Nebula 5, also known as the Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar or butterfly planetary nebula located 2,200 light-years away that formed when a gigantic aging red star shed its outer layers.

This new expansion was slowed by a ring of stellar matter expelled previously, so that, instead of expanding in a sphere, the gas is pinched at the equator.

This splits the recently expelled gas into two lobes, displaced outward by stellar winds from the very hot central star.

It is one of the brightest and most striking nebulae known to date and is made up of a huge mass of cosmic gas and dust.

At its center is a large blanket of ice particles with a heart that shelters a fiery dying star.

The work fantasizes about the personification of this star, but does not show her in a state of agony, but rather, in a moment of rejoicing.

This woman who emerges from the nebula experiences a rebirth, interpreting in that inescapable death the liberation of the true being, just as it happened with a caterpillar that turns into a butterfly