What is the alternative to naming a star?

Naming a star has become a classic gift, so much so that it has lost a little of its magic. If you are looking for an alternative to naming a star that keeps the poetry of the night sky while gaining in originality and beauty, look one step further out into the cosmos: tonebulae.

Rather than naming a star, give the place where stars are born

A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust several light-years across, where gravity lights new suns. It is literally the cradle of stars: inside the Pillars of Creation, in the Eagle Nebula, stars are igniting at this very moment. To give a fragment of a nebula is to give a beginning, a symbol stronger than an anonymous point of light, and especially fitting for a birth, a wedding or a fresh start.

What changes, concretely

• The image: instead of coordinates, an authentic photograph from Hubble, James Webb or the ESO, frame-worthy and magnificent.
• The story: every nebula carries a story (the Helix, nicknamed the Eye of God; the Lagoon, visible to the naked eye on a summer night) that gives the gift its depth.
• Personalization: a dedication engraved on the certificate, and a gift page that unfolds like a jewel box.
• Honesty: at Eonelya you acquire shares of a fragment recorded in a private register, with no ownership of the celestial object and no recognition by any astronomical body. It is written in full, not promised in half-words.

How it works

You choose a nebula from the collection, a number of shares (from €2.90 per share), a dedication and a delivery date. The recipient receives an immersive gift page in their name and a personalized certificate bearing the photograph of their nebula. The full process is set out on the How it works page.

Sources: photographs and data from ESA/Hubble ·NASA, James Webb Space Telescope.