The trend most people mean is the tie-dye nebula pattern that ran across fashion, accessories and bedding. We haven't found a dated study putting a year on its peak. Our own reading is that it saturated quickly, the way all-over prints tend to, and it's now read as distinctly of its moment.
Astronomical imagery hung as art has a much longer and quieter history. Star charts and celestial maps were being drawn as decorative objects long before that, and telescope releases keep supplying new material. The two are only related by subject matter. If you want the wall-art version rather than the fashion one, our galaxy and nebula collections include AI illustrations alongside the Webb-imagery Carina print, with each product’s process and credits stated on its page, and whether it suits a particular room is answered in is galaxy print good for home decor.
The fashion question sits in Looking up because the answer is about the objects, not the trend. What a nebula is explains what the pattern was borrowed from, and are photos of nebulae real explains where those colours come from.
Written by Craig Fearn, Aphelion Prints. Last updated .
