The Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way, is called a nursery for new stars. The growing awareness of plasma should make it also a nursery for new ideas to explain its features.............................


..............The awareness of plasma enables a unitary theory to explain the nebula’s features and their relationships. After two and a half millennia of trying to explain the lights in the sky with an assortment of theories about bumping billiard balls, we return to Heraclitus’s insight that “the thunderbolt steers the universe.”