A nearby nebula, the place of the births and deaths of stars still in its fairly early stages, the outer edges growing from the centre appear brigher and bluer due to the presence of incredibly hot blue stars, the middle being shaded in orange as it contains older, dimmer stars partly obscured by a forked band of dust passing through it.

This here is my first attempt at using Fractals to form the basis of a nebula, I had Apophysis just hanging around for months, probably even a year as I gave up on it, but seeing galleries like that of ~synax444 and some others from more familiar space artists made me realise that with time and patience, the right type of fractals can form an excellent nebula when mixed with others along with some good o'l Photoshop magic This nebula was made of about 4 fractals, and that includes some of the dust clouds in it too, along with some manula work in PS too.