Biggest Photo Ever

[Kwacky]

It's a mammoth 1.5 billion pixel image (69, 536 x 22, 230) and requires about 4.3 GB disk space.

On January 5, NASA released an image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The full image is made up of 411 Hubble images, takes you through a 100 million stars and travels over more than 40,000 light years. Well, a section of it anyway.


[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU#t=63[/video]

[C00kiemonster]

Awesome......

[Blade]

What a waste of pixels. I would have taken a mega cool photo of a very trick bike or a stunning beautiful lady with a top draw camera like that, total waste of good tech IMO

[kiwikrasher]

100 million stars, or 100 million possible life sustaining systems....

[D41]

I wonder if that was an AMERICAN telescope that took that picture.....built by AMERICANS, in AMERICA, and launched via an AMERICAN rocket????

Nah, but we decide to visit someone to get a little oil and the world goes apeshit....

[Frankie]

Awesome.... And we think we are the only ones that exist! There has to be life out there!

[Kwacky]

I wonder if that was an AMERICAN telescope that took that picture.....built by AMERICANS, in AMERICA, and launched via an AMERICAN rocket????

Nah, but we decide to visit someone to get a little oil and the world goes apeshit....

captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

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[Monty]

100 million stars, or 100 million possible life sustaining systems....

.............. and that's just one of around 100 to 200 billion galaxies that we think exist. Assuming the universe isn't infinite.

[duke63]

I wonder if that was an AMERICAN telescope that took that picture.....built by AMERICANS, in AMERICA, and launched via an AMERICAN rocket????

Nah, but we decide to visit someone to get a little oil and the world goes apeshit....

Probabaly AMERICANS trying to spy on someone.

[Perkles]

amazing and thought provoking

[Blade]

Awesome.... And we think we are the only ones that exist! There has to be life out there!

I'm almost certain there is life out there. They are just doing a very good job of hiding from us and who can blame them for that.

[Kwacky]

Professor Cox recently did an episode about life in the universe. He reckons there's very little of it and what there is is unlikely to be very well developed.

[Blade]

He's obviously not watched ET very short sighted

[kiwikrasher]

Awesome.... And we think we are the only ones that exist! There has to be life out there!

I'm almost certain there is life out there. They are just doing a very good job of hiding from us and who can blame them for that.

Probably because they are embarrassed that their bikes aren't as cool as ours!

[Kwacky]

Or they don't have the technical information to reply to the questions Blade is sure to ask them about the bits they've bolted on to their space bikes

[Monty]

Professor Cox recently did an episode about life in the universe. He reckons there's very little of it and what there is is unlikely to be very well developed.

And even if it is developed it could be so far away that it's long gone by the time we pick up any signals from it. Our own radio signals have only covered a tiny fraction of the galaxy never mind the universe.

[Rossgo]

Got to be something out there I reckon

[Blade]

Professor Cox recently did an episode about life in the universe. He reckons there's very little of it and what there is is unlikely to be very well developed.

And even if it is developed it could be so far away that it's long gone by the time we pick up any signals from it. Our own radio signals have only covered a tiny fraction of the galaxy never mind the universe.

I loose key 103 when I get as far as stoke heading south on the m6.

[Blade]

Or they don't have the technical information to reply to the questions Blade is sure to ask them about the bits they've bolted on to their space bikes

Probably swatting up on stuff as we speak in anticipation.

[D41]

Has to be life out there.....I think it's an utterly selfish notion to think that we're alone....and one harbored by some religions, which is something else I have a problem with....just look at all the species of animals we have on this one little planet.