Calle Nebulosas

A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust between the stars, diffuse matter from which new suns are born and to which dying ones return. The street inherits that telescope word because it falls within a small celestial neighborhood: the streets surrounding the Madrid Planetarium, opened in 1986 in Enrique Tierno Galván park, beside the old Delicias station. Walking here means reading a map of the sky written on street plaques. Nebulosas connects with la calle de la Estrella Naos and la calle de la Estrella Shaula, and a step away lie la calle de Cástor y Pólux, the twin heads of Gemini, and la avenida del Planetario. Above this same street sits one of the Tierno Galván lookouts, on the park’s highest ground, open to the southeastern neighborhoods. A street named for the clouds of deep space ends up offering a high place from which to watch the horizon.