The Azure Nebula is at a meeting point along the Klingon Federation border and near to Romulan Space. However, while unimportant in canon lore, it’s alternate universe versions have a very different role, that might pertain to reality hoping and time travel among other subspace effects. From Borg to Tholians, many others are interested in this blue dust cloud, so why? Let’s take a look.
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So I’ve just realized- have you done a ship breakdown of the Constitution?
The Borg from Star Trek assimilate the K-Lon from the TV show The Orwell?
Enjoying these "weird places in Trek" videos! After all, they are pretty much Starfleet's raison d'etre, if i spelled that correctly.
Disclaimer: "I am dumb" LMAO that's hilarious.
So this is basically the magic plot nebula with which they explain away literally all the lore-breaking
"Space is really big"… there's a tie back to another Sci-Fi series….. Just Don't Panic.
Time bending shenanigans might be interesting but it can get tiresome as a plot device when it’s used over and over and over again.
I like how you were able to interject how real-life nebulas look and act like into Star Trek. Much appreciated! 👍
So much of space is hypothetical and theoretical. And even with the JWST, we only see 16 billion light years. Truely anything is possible out there in the vastness of the universe.
S-type Stars are very oxygen rich.
With my head cannon there was a lot of ice in the area and when it went super nova it melted the ice and the H drifted off leaving a lot of O around.
My guess is the sensors in Star Trek are automatically colourising nebulas the same as NASA does so the crew have the convenience of being able to see the nebula.
My favorite little Nebula in Star Trek Online. Always fun just sitting there looking at it. So pretty.
FYI that also applies to Asteroid belts. You can stand on any asteroid and not be able to see another as they are normally thousands to hundreds of thousands of km apart. What we see on TV and movies would be debris fields, either from moons or planets that have recently broken up. If there is enough mass in the local area the field could be collapsing into a new planet as well.
…wait, was this all just an excuse for a Karen Gillan reference? :v
I'm gonna go out on a 30 second limb here and say it's visible because the presence of the noble gases within it are being ionised by nearby stars and ships passing through it, thereby causing the same effect as electrified neon in a vacuum tube.
Real world supernova remnant nebulae can indeed be blue.
Supernovae are what happens when a star runs out of hydrogen to fuse in its core and fuses the helium into heavier elements up to (and sometimes slightly beyond) iron. If the star is big enough and there’s enough convection flow from the core to the surface, the outside layers of the star can become supersaturated with stuff heavier than hydrogen so when the star does finally blow those layers off, the resulting nebula can be very hydrogen poor.
The Azure Nebula is unfortunately way beyond what real world nebulae are like in terms of elemental composition, but again depending on how the gas is excited by the stellar remnant in the core or other nearby stars, colors other than red can dominate their spectra.
Also, if the nebula expands into space already occupied by expanding stuff from other exploded stars or just ordinary patches of dust or gas, the nebula will take whatever shape is allowed by the stuff in its way.
Bottom line is the Azure Nebula is pretty damn improbable, but not completely impossible.
As for the subspace shenanigans- we know that most “subspace particles” like verterons are not stable in our layer of spacetime the way they are in deeper subspace layers. My headcanon is that they are therefore virtual particles the same way ordinary particles can be virtual if there isn’t enough mass-energy available to make them real. In other words, just as say a random proton in any given nucleus is surrounded by a cloud of ordinary virtual particles, that proton also has its cloud of virtual subspace particles. The enormous energies released in a supernova can be sufficient to make those virtual particles temporarily real, resulting in semi permanent deformations in subspace within the nebula. This process would also be rare but not impossible.
Azure Nebula isn't that code for 30 mins leavers penalty because the dam thing is still broken in STO?
I love these videos Rick. Looking at the … Stuff of star trek, stars, nebula, events? And comparing them to real world known objects and science.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Finally someone mentioned the Borg invasion of 2381!!. Please make a video about it, it's easily the most ignored event in all star trek continuities
Right off the bat, a space station among the vast blue.
Straight away, EXPLOSION!
SPACE!!!
If Betleguise explodes douring our lifetimes, we will know for sure can you see super nova nebulae with the naked eye.
If it happens, supernova explosion should be bright as the full moon on the nights sky, so if its possible to see its nebula, we will see it xD
Nothing is canon.
The reason we can see nebulae in Star Trek is because the sensors automatically alter the image seen on the viewscreen. I don't think there's an example of someone seeing a nebula with the naked eye in Star Trek. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I like the music inside the nebulas.
it may be phosphorus based nebula that emits blue light thanks to the radiation from the star, particularly UV radiation from nearby stars. Phosphorus is theorized to be produced by cool stars. If thats the case, Azure nebula is explained by being primarily phosphate nebula. however, it only emits blue light under UV, so there goes my theory
Its Blue Dabba Dee Dabba Die
Is there coffee in it?
Rick i got a theory like in Chrono Cross both dead sea and sea of eden same place 2 universes one held a conglomeration of destroyed realities all merged together while the other was a future zone of chronopolis ground zero for the Timecrash when the frozen flame overloaded their systems and sent the entire city back 10,000 years but at same time dragged bck dinopolis yet another timelines chronopolis but ruled by reptites, this Nebula has similar properties hence why it could be so young but yet old like a continuous timeloop each time it circles about makes new timelines
something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue?