NASA Has Released The Largest Picture Ever Taken And It Will Shake Up Your Universe

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Sorry if this has been posted already or should be posted in another section, but I think this is absolutely fantastic so I thought I would share it.

NASA Has Released The Largest Picture Ever Taken And It Will Shake Up Your Universe

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Have you seen the largest picture ever taken? For the record, it's a mammoth 1.5 billion pixel image (69, 536 x 22, 230) and requires about 4.3 GB disk space. Oh, and it'll take your breath away.

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.

Prepare to feel extremely tiny and insignificant as you marvel at this fly-through video created by YouTuber
daveachuk and make sure you stick around till the end. Seriously.

http://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/wow-nasa/?ref=social&type=fb&b=0

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard...ic-view-of-the-andromeda-galaxy/#.VL5J_yusWs1

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Also see here for the zoomable image for your selves

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/

This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.

This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image.

It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 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.

This image is too large to be easily displayed at full resolution and is best appreciated using the zoom tool.
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heres the link to download the 4.6gb image

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/images/zip/top100/top100-original.zip

Also more images here as found by Cosimo

Cosimo said:
There are some images here:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02
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(I question the claim of the largest picture ever taken. It's the largest for hubble. It's definitely not largest ever in terms of number of pixels...)
 
I wish my feeble ape brain could even begin to imagine the sorts of things going on deep within that galaxy... the sheer size just makes my mind turn to slop.
 
Screeeech said:
I wish my feeble ape brain could even begin to imagine the sorts of things going on deep within that galaxy... the sheer size just makes my mind turn to slop.
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There are countless billions of other galaxies out there too, Andromeda being our closest neighbour at 2 million light years away. It's mind blowing.
 
And it's only one universe out of however many :p

Ayahuasca said:
Whilst it does make you feel small it never makes me feel insignificant, it has quite the opposite affect on me.
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I see where you're coming from as some say the universe is within us, teleportation anyone? No need for space shuttles ;)
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Aren't we due to merge with Andromeda in a few billion years ?
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Four billion years from now, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with our large spiraled neighbor, Andromeda.

The galaxies as we know them will not survive.

In fact, our solar system is going to outlive our galaxy. At that point, the sun will not yet be a red giant star – but it will have grown bright enough to roast Earth’s surface. Any life forms still there, though, will be treated to some pretty spectacular cosmic choreography.

Currently, Andromeda and the Milky Way are about 2.5 million light-years apart. Fueled by mavity, the two galaxies are hurtling toward one another at 402,000 kilometers per hour. But even at that speed, they won’t meet for another four billion years. Then, the two galaxies will collide head-on and fly through one another, leaving gassy, starry tendrils in their wakes. For eons, the pair will continue to come together and fly apart, scrambling stars and redrawing constellations until eventually, after a billion or so years have passed, the two galaxies merge.
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Ayahuasca said:
Whilst it does make you feel small it never makes me feel insignificant, it has quite the opposite affect on me.
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I have to agree, on the first level the fact that we exist at all as conscious self-aware beings is utterly incredible. Then on a deeper level when we look at those pictures we are looking at ourselves. We are made from the energy of the big bang, there is not the universe and then us......we are the universe.
 
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