700MB Galaxy Picture By THE HUBBLE

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

*copy+paste*

700 mb picture!!! taken by Hubble Space Telescope!
The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 was released 9. June 2007 at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

A spiral-shaped system of stars, dust, and gas clouds, the galaxy's arms wind all the way down into the nucleus. Though the galaxy is located 11.6 million light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope's view is so sharp that it can resolve individual stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even glowing regions of fluorescent gas. The Hubble data was taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2004 through 2006. This colour composite was assembled from images taken in blue, visible, and infrared light.

Smaller picture for people without hightech performance machines and Bandwidth:

Reduced Size
1600x1075 (1.73MB)

Full Size Image
Warning! Massive file! 22620x15200p (706mb!)
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/or ... c0710a.tif

Vandall · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 1923 **Location:**

wow thats sick crim...new wallpaper maybe?

dom · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:43 am

right click > save as, to not blow up your computer XD

Luoma · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:44 am

Damn O.O will it lagg up if i download that and try to open it? >.>

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

it's beautiful T_T

dom · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:46 am

Luoma wrote:

Damn O.O will it lagg up if i download that and try to open it? >.>

12% done, i'll let you know.

PB_and_J · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:50 am

Real excited to see this

Belgarath · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 1745 **Location:**

Awesome. Definitely my new desktop.

Mcclane · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 1027 **Location:**

anyone have this as a torrent

dom · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:10 am

I forgot to use my download accelerator and i'm only getting like 550 kb/s =/

edit: it froze =/ going to redownload with DAP

Sylhana · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3467 **Location:**

On high ress if you squint hard enough...

xD

Gorgeous pic. Now I want to be an astronaut <.<.

MrFudge · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 5731 **Location:** None

is there a reason why i can't see the reduced size image?
happens a lot on these forums, all i see is the word 'image'

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

MrFudge wrote:

is there a reason why i can't see the reduced size image?
happens a lot on these forums, all i see is the word 'image'

Yeah, it was viewable a while ago, now its the red x with 'image', not sure how to fix this o.O

dom · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:32 am

Very cool to have in "fit on screen" and zoom in with.

At first I set it to 100% scale - I thought it was taking forever to load because it was a blank white screen, but I was zoomed in on the centre of the image XD

Fat_Smurf · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:33 am

lol is it possible to put a .tif file in tag? :roll:

MrFudge · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 5731 **Location:** None

they should point the hubbell towards the moon to see if the U.S. flag is actually there. :roll:

of course they wont cuz its not....

darkmaster21 · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 2156 **Location:**

Downloading now, thanks Crim for this awesome picture

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MrFudge wrote:

they should point the hubbell towards the moon to see if the U.S. flag is actually there. :roll:

of course they wont cuz its not....

Lies.

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

MrFudge wrote:

they should point the hubbell towards the moon to see if the U.S. flag is actually there. :roll:

of course they wont cuz its not....

haha, make a large enough optical telescope and i'll show u personally

Casey613 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:11 am

Awesome picture. Going to download it tomorrow.

I don't even wanna know what a stalker could do with that telescope though...

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

Lol, guys, im gonna dl it, and im gonna burn it and look at it on my 46" 1080p'er lol

0nix · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 342 **Location:**

gotta wait 2 hours to c the actual size lol

MrFudge · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 5731 **Location:** None

any astrology experts wanna tell me how they got this image?

i mean, if the earth is in the middle of all that mumbo jumbo, how did we get a picture looking down on us? lol

is like space time and light just not continued and eventually the light just bends and so we can see down onto our own galaxy and determine our position in there?

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

actually, that's isn't our galaxy, it's the "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 11.6 million light years away.

Innovacious · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 2446 **Location:**

MrFudge wrote:

any astrology experts wanna tell me how they got this image?

i mean, if the earth is in the middle of all that mumbo jumbo, how did we get a picture looking down on us? lol

is like space time and light just not continued and eventually the light just bends and so we can see down onto our own galaxy and determine our position in there?

read it again, it isnt our galaxy

satman83 · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 9541 **Location:** London

MrFudge wrote:

any astrology experts wanna tell me how they got this image?

i mean, if the earth is in the middle of all that mumbo jumbo, how did we get a picture looking down on us? lol

is like space time and light just not continued and eventually the light just bends and so we can see down onto our own galaxy and determine our position in there?

Ok here we go

First its not our galaxy...its another galaxy :roll:

, its the large "grand design"
spiral galaxy M81

Secondly were not even in the middle of our own galaxy....were actually on the edge
of it, right on the very edge were there are very few stars indeed...if we were
in the middle then the night sky would always be full of stars all the time.

Thirdly light moves at a consent speed, the only thing that can affect it is a black
hole, apart from that time is continual and linear.

hemagoku · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 2720 **Location:**

am sure my pc will lag for like 4hrs to open that ,and 30min for every zoom i make ,not gonna download lol

MrFudge · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 5731 **Location:** None

i found out the answer to my question.
thanks to everyone for replying.

the milky way pics always confused me cuz theyd always have an arrow pointing saying 'HERE IS EARTH' or somethin like that. I thought those were actual pictures, but theyre just detailed drawings. Well that kinda bursts my bubble.

Priam · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:56 am

Brilliant picture, thanks for the post, this is a keeper.

Cruor · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 1999 **Location:**

CrimsonNuker wrote:

Lol, guys, im gonna dl it, and im gonna burn it and look at it on my 46" 1080p'er lol

Waste of bandwidth, and the image isn't the correct ratio.
Photoshop had no problems though, only took up a full GB of RAM.

Here's a groovy YTMND to put things into perspective:
http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/

I think the next servicing mission in August will make the Hubble 60%
more powerful than it was when this picture was taken.

The resized image doesn't really do it justice. Here's a cutout:

MrFudge · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 5731 **Location:** None

that was one of the most interesting ytmnd's ive seen.

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