Hourglass Nebula - Hourglass Nebula in Popular Culture

Hourglass Nebula in Popular Culture

• The Hourglass Nebula was featured on the cover of the April 1997 issue of National Geographic. The nebula’s unique appearance led the magazine’s editors to comment, “Astronomers looked 8,000 light-years into the cosmos with the Hubble Space Telescope, and it seemed that the eye of God was staring back.”
• The Hourglass Nebula serves as the front cover for Pearl Jam's 2000 album Binaural.
• The Hourglass Nebula appears in the popular game, Final Doom.
• The Hourglass Nebula appears on a poster in the CERN laboratory in the film Angels & Demons.
• The Hourglass Nebula appears extensively, and is used as a major plot point in the 2002 animated series Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey.
• The Hourglass Nebula appears in the video games titled Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 as one of the clusters that can be visited for missions.
• The Hourglass Effect is a 2008 album by the British band Shadowkeep.
• The Hourglass Nebula appears on the cover for International Body Talk Association's "Finding Health" manual.