Melting Red1 – Tarantula Nebula – Card

Design:
The Tarantula Nebula reimagined as a vivid artwork with swirling brush strokes in shades of deep and ruby red. This celestial wonder is shown with rich, intense colours that breathe life into the nebula’s complex web of interstellar gas and dust.

The flowing brush strokes are the heart of this artwork, mirroring and connecting the intricate and structure of the this majestic formation. This technique brings out the swirling patterns and the finest lines. Strewn throughout the swirling colours, new stars glint like diamonds embedded in the nebula’s fabric. These nascent stars shine brightly against the smoky backdrop, their light piercing through as delicate points of white light.

The choice of deep red and ruby red hues lends a dramatic, beautifully bold and intense quality to the artwork. These shades evoke a sense of passion and energy. This is a striking artwork that captures the awe-inspiring majesty of one of the universe’s most fascinating regions, transformed into a flowing tapestry of red hues and glinting stars.

Product information:
Fine Art Greetings Cards:

Size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches / 14 x 14cm
280gsm gloss paper.
Our premium fine art paper is somewhat similar to light card stock, but still foldable to make our gorgeous cards. This paper is sourced from sustainable forests.
Printed with professional quality, eco friendly Giclée inks.
The gloss finish brings out contrast, detail and superb colour in each image. The smooth, shiny surface allows for fine detail.
Each card comes with it’s own Kraft envelope (UK only).
These cards have biodegradable cellophane sleeves.
Choose a single card, set of 10 cards, set of 20 cards.

Cosmic Stuff Fine Art Greetings Cards are printed on a lovely heavy weight gloss paper. They are perfect for birthday greetings, sending Thank You notes or with letters tucked inside, graduations, for new home owners and many other occasions. These cards make a thoughtful addition to any of our other products, to include your own special hand written messages. Each has it’s own envelope and they are left blank for your messages.

Narrative behind the art:
The region resembles a burrowing tarantula’s home, lined with its silk.

In addition to young stars, Webb reveals distant background galaxies, as well as the detailed structure and composition of the nebula’s gas and dust.

At only 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, the Tarantula Nebula is the largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group, the galaxies nearest our Milky Way. It is home to the hottest, most massive stars known.

Within the stellar nursery clouds, points of light indicate embedded protostars, still gaining mass. While shorter wavelengths of light are absorbed or scattered by dust grains in the nebula, and therefore never reach Webb to be detected, longer mid-infrared wavelengths penetrate that dust, ultimately revealing a previously unseen cosmic environment.

Star-forming regions in our Milky Way galaxy are not producing stars at the same furious rate as the Tarantula Nebula, and have a different chemical composition. This makes the Tarantula the closest (i.e., easiest to see in detail) example of what was happening in the universe as it reached its brilliant high noon.