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The third of the most influential 100 historical pictures in history (1 1- 15)
Hubble Space Telescope boarded the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1990, exceeding the budget and several years behind schedule. When it finally reached the orbit, its 8-foot mirror was deformed due to manufacturing defects. It was not until 1993 that the Hubble telescope was put online by the maintenance task. Finally, in 1 April 1995 1,1,such a clear and profound image of the universe was captured, and people called it "the pillar of creation".

Hubble photographed the Eagle Nebula, a region where stars form, about 6,500 light years away from the Earth, at the tail of Ophiuchus. The huge chimney is a huge interstellar dust cloud, which is shaped by the high-energy wind from nearby stars (the black part in the upper right corner comes from the magnification of one of the four cameras of Hubble telescope). Huge pillars are 5 light years old, that is, 30 trillion miles long, and an image has reached a level that thousands of astronomical symposiums can't reach.

Stanley Foreman was working in the Boston Herald on July 22nd, 1975. He received a phone call saying that there was a fire in marlborough Street. He rushed over and saw a woman and a child on the fire escape on the fifth floor. A fireman has set out to help them. Suddenly, 19-year-old Diana Bryant and her 2-year-old daughter Tyr Jones fell downstairs. "I was taking pictures of falling, and then I turned and left. I suddenly realized what had happened. I don't want to see them hit the ground. I still remember turning around and shaking. " Kobe finally died of serious injuries.

This photo won the Forman Pulitzer Prize and prompted municipalities all over the country to formulate stricter fire safety regulations.

Somewhere in the sea of tranquility,1On the evening of July 20th, 969, Buzz Aldrin stood there. He didn't film Aldrin's camera on the steps of the lunar module, nor did he pay tribute to the American flag. He just stood there, a small and fragile person in a distant world. If he took off an extremely complicated dress, it would kill him. His arm bent awkwardly because he glanced at the list on his wrist. Armstrong's mask looks smaller and has a larger spectrum.

Few people remember Biafra, a small western country, which broke away from southern Nigeria in 1967 and was annexed again in less than three years.

"Although he was starving to death, he was still the object of rejection, ridicule and insult among his peers." This photo deeply influenced public opinion, forced the government to take action and led to the airlift of food, medicine and weapons. He and other witnesses to the conflict inspired Mé decins sans frontiè res, which provides emergency medical support for people suffering from wars, epidemics and disasters.

The frightened little boy raised his hand, which is the center of this image. Nearly 5 million Jews crowded into the slums of Warsaw, which was transformed into a wall of hunger and death by the Nazis. From July 1942, German occupiers began to transport about 5,000 Warsaw residents to concentration camps every day. With the news of extinction, slum dwellers formed a resistance organization. By April 1943, the Nazi army had taken all the remaining Jews away. Sparse armed guerrillas fought back, but were eventually subdued by German tanks and flamethrowers. When the rebellion ended on May 6, 2006, 65438+6,

SS Major-General You Ergen stroop was so proud of his slum cleaning work that he created the stroop Report, a leather-covered photo album with reports of killings and dozens of heartbreaking photos every day, just like the boy raised his hand. In the subsequent Nuremberg war crimes trial, this volume became the key evidence against stroop, which led him to be hanged near the slum in 195 1 year.