Some 3,000 light years away, shimmering layers of gas formed an almost perfect sphere around the faintly glowing, burned-out core of a dead star. The result looks like a giant crystal ball floating in space — and if you stare into it too long, you can almost see a giant cosmic eye staring back. Don’t be fooled by the serene beauty of this image, as those diaphanous clouds of gas are roaring outward at around 112,000 miles an hour.

The Gemini South Telescope, perched high in Chile’s Andes Mountains, recently captured this ethereal image of the Spare Tire Nebula, also known as IC 5148 — and it’s potentially a glimpse into the future of our own Solar System.

In Fingernails, filmmaker Christos Nikou explores the computerization of courtship — a distressing issue familiar to anyone who has opened Tinder or Hinge. But in Nikou’s indie science-fiction movie, the future of intimacy is surprisingly low-tech.