rockets through a black dust cloud where young stars are just beginning to glow. an icy worldlet evaporates, releasing gasses which blow away in spectral bursts of iridescent color.
a comet blows by. we chase it, riding its luminous tail of evaporating ice.
-- rockets through the rosette nebula, a vast cloud of glowing red hydrogen illuminated by young hot stars a hundred times brighter than the sun. their solar wind is blowing out an immense cavity in the interstellar gas and dust.
we roar by a rapidly rotating, flashing pulsar. cosmic dust filters the light into the shifting spectrum of colors.
approaching a backwater area of the galaxy. a small, unspectacular yellow star comes into view.
the yellow star is now definitely brighter than the rest.