Hubble telescope takes big ass motherfucking image of Andromeda @ 1.5 billion pixels

[Comcastic]

Absolutely beautiful.

Images like these give me a chill up my spine, it's awe inspiring. I just hope we can explore even a tiny fraction of our galaxy, and not destroy each other before we get the chance to.

Damn space, why you so awesome.

[Killergam]

It would only take 150 4k HD tvs to display too. :) That's assuming they are refering to 1080p and not 720p HD.

[James]

What's that really bright star to the right of the core?

[paramud]

[QUOTE=TheTalon;46867262]Surely one of those dots has a rock orbiting it with life on it[/QUOTE]

Don't be crazy, we're the only ones.

[Elexar]

[QUOTE=James xX;46867961]What's that really bright star to the right of the core?[/QUOTE]

a pulsar beaming Z-Rays straight into every human.. slowly altering our DNA and causing cancers and cravings for grilled lobster

[Mingebox]

[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]

Why was this guys ban not a perma?

[Pelf]

[QUOTE=James xX;46867961]What's that really bright star to the right of the core?[/QUOTE]

Probably just a close star

[Skipcast]

[QUOTE=Riller;46867664][t]http://i.imgur.com/JVszl7I.jpg[/t]

Hmm.[/QUOTE]

Nice job inverting the sand picture, he obviously meant non inverted sand.

[swebonny]

That image is sick. I tried to take a pic of Andromeda once, didn't go that well.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/pV0aV7F.jpg[/t]

[Drury]

Forget Andromeda, you've just captured the Magnifying Glassaxy and confirmed it's existence.

[Riller]

[QUOTE=Skipcast;46868091]Nice job inverting the sand picture, he obviously meant non inverted sand.[/QUOTE]

But inverting the sand-picture gets you something that looks like the galaxy if you take off your glasses.

[Chubbs]

Have they released it as a single large image at all?

I think it should be about 4.5GB.

[Stormbuster]

[QUOTE=Nebukadnezzer;46866848]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.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately, due to a combination of eye limitations and light pollution, the galaxy looks much smaller to the unaided eye due to the galaxy being rather dark, so often the only part visible to the vast majority of people is the center.

[Arnold]

Here's a magnet link for the full file, 4.3 GB. I'm seeding at the moment, 500 Mb/s.

[URL="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1478F1C146918868C811C250AECF89690AB22452&dn=heic1502a.psb&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.publicbt.com%3a80"]Magnet[/URL]

[Neckbird]

welp, time to start up space engine

[Nebukadnezzer]

[QUOTE=Just2Rusty;46867344][img_thumb]http://puu.sh/e8V0B/825f918090.jpg[/img_thumb]

Looks cool inverted.[/QUOTE]

it looks like a black hole, or something out of twilight princess

[FreakyMe]

[URL="http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2015002a/warn/"]Links to 6000x1918px and 17384x5558px versions.[/URL]

I personally am going to use it to make a folder of wallpapers that is essentially the 17384x5558 version cut into 1920x1080 tiles.

[Snickerdoodle]

[QUOTE=Rixxz2;46867294]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[/QUOTE]

Jupiter may be big but it can't order pizza

And that's what makes me feel special