Voyage to the Jellyfish Nebula
25 Feb 2018Random Chaos
From time to time, every pilot gets a little bit of wanderlust, and wants to escape from the daily grind of life in the bubble to see what the universe has to offer. My trip to the Jellyfish Nebula began on a lark. I headed straight for the rim, looking for any interesting sights along the way, and noticed that my course would take me within a few hundred light years of the nebula. Abandoning the search for more Earth-like worlds after finding a over a half-dozen terraforming candidates, and another half-dozen water worlds that seemed habitable as-is (except for the lack of land), I headed to the nebula to take some pictures as well as put in for repairs at the Beta Site base.This terraforming candidate was among the most unusual, with a temperature of 688 Kelvin, an atmosphere of water vapor, and a fairly low mass.
A pair of twin water worlds, with a fairly wide separation. The less photogenic of the pair is barely visible on the right side of the frame.
Another water world, this one with heavy ice caps on both poles.
One of the most unusual water worlds I've ever encountered, this one had no ice caps or visible weather patterns.
A pair of metal-rich worlds, with such a narrow separation that they may end up destroying each other eventually.
A deceptive world. Look closely at the "oceans".
Two shots of the Jellyfish Nebula, from different sides, and a third of the Beta Site base inside of it.
All good things come to an end. Time to head home.
