A laser and some imagination. A nebula is created. (A video I created shortly afterwards.. turned out amazing - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=353853781310841)
An imaginative idea. Textures work well, the fuzzy area not so much to my eyes. I might also crop the top a little to go widescreen and reduce the black area and balance the image. Exposure is always going to be difficult on this type of shot, not that I have ever tried, and reducing that might bring out more structure to the fuzzy area.
Forget not that we are all only star dust, flowing in a sea of experience. To wonder the nature of the universe, is but to ask the nature of ourselves.. 2011 In Lak'ech