• Hubble telescope takes big ass motherfucking image of Andromeda @ 1.5 billion pixels
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[img]http://static.squarespace.com/static/53cf56b1e4b0be33a439738b/t/54ab2069e4b0170492ee5c5e/1420501103477/Screen+Shot+2015-01-06+at+10.37.57+am.png?format=1000w[/img] [quote]NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy. The image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has an amazing 1.5 billion pixels that would require 600 HD television screens to display in full. The view shows the galaxy in its natural visible-light color as photographed in red and blue filters. Andromeda Galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 31, is a large spiral galaxy that lies "just" 2.5 million light years from Earth. Hubble's detailed view captures more than 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40,000 light-years. The whole galaxy contains over one thousand billion stars.[/quote] [url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/]Click here for the full size picture[/url] [url=http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...a/format/zoom]Alternative link for picture[/url] [url=http://blog.cosmosmagazine.com/blog/2015/1/6/hubble-takes-the-biggest-image-ever-of-andromeda-at-15-billion-pixels]Source[/url]
502 bad gateway on the first link, but when I go to the source the image doesn't even load :v:
I fucking. Love. Space.
[url]http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/image/a/format/zoom/[/url] Working link.
The Hubble telescope is easily one of the most amazing things we as a race have ever constructed in terms of scientific value.
I zoomed in and at first I thought "wow this is a really noisy image" and then I realized that I was looking at [I]stars[/I].
Always relevent when andromeda comes up. [IMG]https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6216/6230985836_6007b65532.jpg[/IMG] With this in mind, I am fairly sure all of the bright stars are actually part of our milky way. The actual stars in andromeda are the film-grain sized pixels you see when you zoom in all the way.
I zoomed in and thought wow this looks like colored sand. Amazed at the size of the overall shot.
*yawn* The space thing is getting a bit old, maybe we could like solve world hunger or something before wasting so much money on these useless endeavours.
[QUOTE=Jeremie. B;46866898]*yawn* The space thing is getting a bit old, maybe we could like solve world hunger or something before wasting so much money on these useless endeavours.[/QUOTE] First post was literally 26 minutes ago, absolutely horrible post which is pretty obvious trolling. Keep the thread about the awesome space pictures and ignore this guy. In response to my previous question, this answers it pretty nicely: [IMG]http://astrobrunomarshall.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/m31withandwithoutstars.jpg[/IMG] So yeah, none of the bright things you see are part of andromeda, but the milky way.
is it actually plausible trying to save the original photo to my hd or is the file size going to be ridiculous
[QUOTE=Jeremie. B;46866898]*yawn* The space thing is getting a bit old, maybe we could like solve world hunger or something before wasting so much money on these useless endeavours.[/QUOTE] Then you better get to it
[QUOTE=Jeremie. B;46866898]*yawn* The space thing is getting a bit old, maybe we could like solve world hunger or something before wasting so much money on these useless endeavours.[/QUOTE] Yeah just airdrop food in africa and u solve the problem amirite And this is amazing, you are just being negative for the sake of being negative lol
[QUOTE=Jeremie. B;46866898]*yawn* The space thing is getting a bit old, maybe we could like solve world hunger or something before wasting so much money on these useless endeavours.[/QUOTE] World hunger is not an issue of NASA eating the budget that it could be solved with, and researching how the world around us works has been everything but useless. Direct applicability always comes later down the line: Sure, learning how electrons transfer energy won't help a farmer care for his crops, but if you can build more efficient tools and machines with it, you bet it will.
[QUOTE=large goku;46866969]is it actually plausible trying to save the original photo to my hd or is the file size going to be ridiculous[/QUOTE] Maybe someone will make torrent for it, like the "small picture of Gabe Newell" :v:
[QUOTE=large goku;46866969]is it actually plausible trying to save the original photo to my hd or is the file size going to be ridiculous[/QUOTE] If you've viewed it you've already downloaded it
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I don't know why zooming into this makes me feel uncomfortable. Every level of zoom brings out 100x more stars than the last.
[QUOTE=BMCHa;46866811]I zoomed in and at first I thought "wow this is a really noisy image" and then I realized that I was looking at [I]stars[/I].[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://puu.sh/e8RhL/37f224f482.jpg[/IMG] It's like looking at a beach, only instead of grains of sand those are all stars. The entire image consists of that. Pretty mind-boggling.
[QUOTE=xamllew;46867193]I don't know why zooming into this makes me feel uncomfortable.[/QUOTE] It's because of how small it makes you feel. Stats on shit are hellah awesome though. Even with all of the stars you see in that galaxy, there are 100x more micro-organisms on earth than stars (estimated) in the known universe. We are inconsequential.
Surely one of those dots has a rock orbiting it with life on it
[QUOTE=Dalto11;46867239]It's because of how small it makes you feel.[/QUOTE] Considering a lot (possibly all) of it consists of lifeless clumps of matter and vacuum, it makes me feel like we're extremely significant, if anything
[img_thumb]http://puu.sh/e8V0B/825f918090.jpg[/img_thumb] Looks cool inverted.
[QUOTE=joe588;46867148]If you've viewed it you've already downloaded it[/QUOTE] Pretty sure it just downloads the area that you are looking at.
Would make a cool wallpaper for someone with two screens!
[QUOTE=Jeremie. B;46866898]*yawn* The space thing is getting a bit old, maybe we could like solve world hunger or something before wasting so much money on these useless endeavours.[/QUOTE] When the crops start dying and the water becomes toxic, you're going to be glad they spend money on this. Also contrary to popular belief, throwing money into R&D won't solve the world's problems any faster. A small group of people have changed the world. It's more of a matter of waiting for those people to rise up and solve the world's problems for the rest of us.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;46867369]Would make a cool wallpaper for someone with [B]600[/B] screens![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Just2Rusty;46867344][img_thumb]http://puu.sh/e8V0B/825f918090.jpg[/img_thumb] Looks cool inverted.[/QUOTE] It looks exactly like a beach, as Seargeant compared the original image to. Amazing. Seriously what are the odds.
Oh just you wait until the James Webb Space Telescope. [thumb]http://jwst.nasa.gov/images/JWST-HST-primary-mirrors.jpg[/thumb]
[QUOTE=LSK;46867491]It looks exactly like a beach, as Seargeant compared the original image to. Amazing. Seriously what are the odds.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/JVszl7I.jpg[/IMG] Hmm.
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