Thursday, February 7, 2008

690MB pic taken by Hubble Telescope, The whole galaxy view

Here is an image i found on a site its 690 MB in size of 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 ImageWarning! Massive file! 22620x15200p (690MB!)
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http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0710a.tifSmaller picture for people without hightech performance machines: Reduced Size4000x2688p (6.2mb)
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http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/publicationjpg/heic0710a.jpg

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