COSMIC WOOD PENDANT NECKLACE・ORION PURPLE

The birth of stars occurs in an enormous cloud of gas and dust called nebulae. The closest region of such massive star formation is 1344 light-years away - The Great Orion Nebula, an inspiration for this purple shade necklace.

The composition of stars is caused by the turbulence from deep within these clouds, which creates high-density regions called knots. These knots contain enough mass that the shadow of cosmic dust begins to collapse from gravitation. As it collapses, the pressure from gravity causes the centre to heat up, creating a protostar. One day, this core becomes hot enough to ignite fusion - this is how a star is born.

Not all of the material in the collapsing cloud ends up as part of a star - the remaining dust can become planets, asteroids or comets... Orion purple necklace carries a tale of the early days of a young solar system just like ours.