Stardust

The stardust captured from the planetary nebula would provide enough energy for the mage's experiments for hundreds of millennia, even with the inevitable data loss during the analog to digital conversion process...

Mage posed in Poser 9, fractalworld light source created in Groboto 3, image constructed and rendered in Vue 11 Infinite, nebula and spiral galaxy images from NASA, added in Photoshop CS6.