Abstract
The enormous popular appeal of this image of the Eagle Nebula was highlighted recently when the readers of Sky and Telescope magazine voted it the second “most influential astrophoto of the 20th century” – beaten only by the famous “Earthrise” photograph taken during the Apollo 8 lunar mission (see page 19). The Eagle Nebula image has also appeared on numerous magazine covers and posters, and was one of four images chosen for a special set of US stamps to mark the 10th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. “We knew when we took the picture that it was a corker,” says Paul Scowen of Arizona State University, who obtained the image with colleague Jeff Hester in 1995. “However, the degree to which it became so popular was surprising.”
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