700 mb picture! taken by Hubble Space Telescope!

[pumma]

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.


Full Size Image
Warning! Massive file! 22620x15200p (706mb!)
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0710a.tif


Smaller picture for people without hightech performance machines:

Reduced Size
4000x2688p (6,2mb)
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/publicationjpg/heic0710a.jpg

[bigus_dickus]

i remember when i had a 1200bps modem, ms-dos and ansi graphics and to download anything larger than 1mb was science fiction.

[kasalt]

i remember when i had a 1200bps modem, ms-dos and ansi graphics and to download anything larger than 1mb was science fiction.

:D

Wow...a 700 megabite photo? Is that even viewable on a regular pc?

I downloaded the smaller photo, its nice. I have a high speed connection but should I even bother trying to download a 700mb photo?

...Oh I get it! Is that why this link was posted in the "Useless Media" forum? ;)

[pumma]

:D

Wow...a 700 megabite photo? Is that even viewable on a regular pc?

I downloaded the smaller photo, its nice. I have a high speed connection but should I even bother trying to download a 700mb photo?

...Oh I get it! Is that why this link was posted in the "Useless Media" forum? ;)
Well, the answer is YES and NO :p

I thought this would be the right place to put it. ;):cool:

[auron]

A 700mb picture?? Wow! No chance i could view that on this machine though.

[mr_moon]

Now i know this may seem like a controversial thing to say... but it doesn't look real.

Do you really believe it looks like that?

I'm no 'scientist' but my Intuition tells me that it's not real...