Hubble Telescope snaps distant galaxy

mrk · 22 Nov 2007 at 20:54

A 706MB view of a galaxy 11.6 Million light years away taken by the Hubble telescope can be downloaded and viewed here but be warned, the image used over 1GB of ram to display in Photoshop but the detail when viewed 100% is sublime.

philio16 · 22 Nov 2007 at 21:07

ouch!!!!!!! thats some beauty of a picture though!

dirtybeatfreak · 22 Nov 2007 at 22:20

coulda run noise ninja over it tho tbh

seriously i love stuff like this, its mad thinking whats out there

Overlag · 22 Nov 2007 at 22:59

i dunno if thats noise, or stars....... lol

Helium_Junkie · 22 Nov 2007 at 23:08

Arent they going to let the hubble die now?

VaderDSL · 22 Nov 2007 at 23:11

Helium_Junkie said:
Arent they going to let the hubble die now?

Why?

It's an astonishing resource, granted it needs more and more servicing now adays, but hopefully it will continue to supply valuable information until the next generations of space telescope.

Irish_Tom · 23 Nov 2007 at 00:15

I thought they were producing the Hubble 2 which was going to be able to do even more than the latest updates they made to the first one....

Panzer

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 23 Nov 2007 at 07:23

Hubble 1Ds Mark II

ScarySquirrel · 23 Nov 2007 at 08:27

Awesome picture, I love stuff like this

mrk · 23 Nov 2007 at 08:29

And to think, that was 11.6million years ago

Messiah Khan · 23 Nov 2007 at 08:58

Panzerbjorn said:
I thought they were producing the Hubble 2 which was going to be able to do even more than the latest updates they made to the first one....

Panzer

Nope. Hubble will seize to be serviced and will die a slow death. Its is to be replaced by the James Webb telescope;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

However this one is designed for IR waves rather than visible light, so it remains to be seen if we get any beautifull images like Hubble has produced. It will be more productive from a scientific point of view though as it will be able to look futher back towards the beginning of the universe to try and answer the question of what caused the big bang. The James Webb is actually smaller than hubble, but its primary mirror is massivly larger due to it being made of 16(I think) unfolding hexagonal mirrors.

Fstop11 said:
Hubble 1Ds Mark II

Actually it would be more like Hubble 1Ds MKIIi

philio16 · 23 Nov 2007 at 09:25

Messiah Khan said:
Nope. Hubble will seize to be serviced and will die a slow death. Its is to be replaced by the James Webb telescope;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

The simulation images on there seem to be in colour? :confused:

Messiah Khan · 23 Nov 2007 at 09:36

philio16 said:
The simulation images on there seem to be in colour?

Probably artificially coloured to represent things like age and temperature etc.

FreeStream · 23 Nov 2007 at 09:40

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0710a.tif

^^^ Link to download it

Getting 850kb/s

balls · 23 Nov 2007 at 13:32

Concorde Rules said:
Getting 850kb/s

oh noes, only 722kb/sec

edit: my god is it already time for xmas smilies?

robmiller · 23 Nov 2007 at 13:39

Messiah Khan said:
However this one is designed for IR waves rather than visible light, so it remains to be seen if we get any beautifull images like Hubble has produced.

They'll artificially colour it, surely? I mean, I'm pretty sure they did that even with Hubble images...

robmiller · 23 Nov 2007 at 13:42

balls said:
oh noes, only 722kb/sec

3432KB/s

JANET <3

Phate · 23 Nov 2007 at 14:24

balls said:
oh noes, only 722kb/sec

Oh shush

I get 300kb/s at home and I can't get any faster due to my house location.

Happy now?

Phate · 23 Nov 2007 at 14:24

robmiller said:
They'll artificially colour it, surely? I mean, I'm pretty sure they did that even with Hubble images...

I was under the impression that things in space had colour to them? :eek:

Mohain · 23 Nov 2007 at 14:38

robmiller said:
They'll artificially colour it, surely? I mean, I'm pretty sure they did that even with Hubble images...

The hubble doesn't take colour pictures.