The name
Nebarc is two words put together: nebula and arc.
A nebula is where stars are born. It is full of raw material and possibility, and it has no shape yet.
An arc is the path something draws once it has taken shape and starts to move.
Together: out of endless possibility, something real takes shape, one step at a time.
A cycle of stars
Nebulae are not only beginnings. They are one stop in a cycle that has been running for billions of years.
- 01
A star grows old
In its core, a star turns hydrogen into heavier elements: carbon, oxygen, silicon, iron. At the end of its life it sheds its outer layers, or explodes as a supernova.
- 02
Stardust drifts out
Those new elements, and the tiny grains of stardust that form from them, are thrown back into space.
- 03
A nebula gathers
They mix with hydrogen and helium into a new nebula. It is mostly gas; dust is only about one percent of it.
- 04
New stars are born
The densest parts of the cloud collapse under their own gravity and light up as new stars, with planets forming around them. When they grow old, the cycle begins again.
Made of star-stuff
The Sun, the Earth, and most of the carbon, oxygen, calcium and iron in your body were made inside stars that lived and died long before us.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star‑stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Still taking shape
The arc is not finished. New tools are added one at a time, and the site keeps changing.
Like the cycle, where one thing ends, the next one begins.