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Hubble Pillars of Creation

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In April 1995 Hubble's WFPC2 camera stared into the Eagle Nebula and returned three light-years of interstellar gas and dust standing upright against the dark. Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen's narrow-band mapping painted the towers gold and amber, ringed them in fluorescing green and ionized cyan, and set them in a near-black navy void freckled with pinpoint stars. This system carries that composition into an interface: grand vertical forms, emitted light rather than reflected, and a palette earned by a telescope, not a mood board — a cosmic incubator turned design language.

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  • OriginUnited States (NASA / STScI, Hubble Space Telescope)
  • Period1995 (WFPC2 original; 25th-anniversary re-image 2015)
  • DesignerJeff Hester · Paul Scowen · NASA · ESA · STScI
  • MovementsSpace-telescope science imaging · Narrow-band SHO astrophotography

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