nebula

The image was created by taking lots of pictures of the nebula and combining them into one.

Kane described his inspiration behind the collection, which utilized the motif of a nebula seen from the Hubble telescope, as “the idea of explosive outwards expansion,” Vogue reported back then.

Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

I was rocketing through space, flying past exploding nebulas.

These observations show the top of the "horse's mane" or edge of this iconic nebula in a whole new light, capturing the region's complexity with unprecedented spatial resolution.