Nebula is Visible

Nebula is Visible

The NASA had begun its own analysis of the cloud the moment the nebula had become visible on sensors. Part of this was pure curiosity and part of it a desire to find a way to eliminate any threat the cloud might pose.

The computer told the scientists that the energy field that composed the external shell of the cloud was electromagnetic, but, at the frequencies displayed, should not have been capable of holding the enormous quantities of water gas within it in the presence of the high gravimetric fields created by the cloud’s motion through space. What was even more troubling was that the shell obviously did perform this function more than adequately.

An animated multicolored bird reappearing in the early morning sky. Image: Copyright © Megan Jorgensen (Elena)

The experts were now being forced to rethink those doubts.

The atmosphere within the giant sphere (more than 3 light-years long) obviously maintained hundreds of thousands of billions of tons of water present within it. Clearly, this water was in gas form, but the mechanism by which the cloud formed this infinite ocean, was unknown.

The men wished there was a way to get a closer look at the phenomenon without venturing out into space.

(Extract from The Rain, the famous SF novel by Elena and George.)