24GB 9 Billion pixel space picture.

sityeuropa · 20 May 2015 at 21:31

This be good for people with 4K monitors.

The 24 GB picture is so much more detailed. Open PSB file with photoshop. You get a better idea of just how many stars there are in the galaxy.

I recommend using an SSD for a scratchdisk when opening it.

Bittorrent link is at the bottom.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/

joeyjojo · 20 May 2015 at 21:38

108199 x 81503 px

Stunning. Using the "zoom tool". :cool:

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/zoomable/

Jumper118 · 20 May 2015 at 22:04

looks good in 4k shame i can't see most of the detail without zooming in.

estebanrey · 20 May 2015 at 22:07

108199 x 81503 px

Lucky I just bought a 108K monitor today

cainer · 20 May 2015 at 22:15

i counted 103,407,987,629 stars

Will Gill · 20 May 2015 at 22:24

Very cool, makes me feel rather tiny :cool:

snips86x · 20 May 2015 at 22:30

Skull · 20 May 2015 at 22:38

Phew! Luckily we're the ones all of that was created for and the only one of those stars that has life orbiting it!

Mynight · 20 May 2015 at 22:39

Could at least have had the pic in the op :rolleyes:

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ElliorR · 20 May 2015 at 22:43

My god, it's full of stars.

G-MAN2004 · 20 May 2015 at 23:01

Why would God create so many stars when ours is the only important one?

George Hincapie · 20 May 2015 at 23:16

Skull said:
Phew! Luckily we're the ones all of that was created for and the only one of those stars that has life orbiting it!

Oh dear.

dacads · 20 May 2015 at 23:43

G-MAN2004 said:
Why would God create so many stars when ours is the only important one?

sityeuropa · 21 May 2015 at 00:00

Just a part of ONE galaxy. And we got 1 billion of them.

Robosapien · 21 May 2015 at 00:03

We're so lucky to be born alone into such a vast vacuum totally incapable of supporting our version of life (give or take a few atmospheres).

Vinno · 21 May 2015 at 00:04

I often feel insignificant in my life and things like this just make it even worse.

It just boggles my mind.

Orionaut · 21 May 2015 at 00:11

sityeuropa said:
Just a part of ONE galaxy. And we got 100 billion of them.

Fixed for you!

And those are only the ones within the light cone of the visible universe!

(Might be many, many, more than that!)

I feel very very small!

Orionaut · 21 May 2015 at 00:15

Robosapien said:
We're so lucky to be born alone into such a vast vacuum totally incapable of supporting our version of life (give or take a few atmospheres).

ISTR seeing a NASA documentory that stated that all the stars/matter in the observable universe (Assuming one ignored the gravitational consequences of doing this

) would fit into a volume only a couple of LY across.

Space is pretty empty really! :eek:

PhysicsMan94 · 21 May 2015 at 00:27

Orionaut said:
ISTR seeing a NASA documentory that stated that all the stars/matter in the observable universe (Assuming one ignored the gravitational consequences of doing this ) would fit into a volume only a couple of LY across.

Space is pretty empty really!

Yep, in fact in terms of Energy content the universe as we know it is made up of only 5% baryon if matter (the "normal" matter we see around us essentially), with around 25% being Dark Matter and the remaining 70% is Dark Energy (which we have very little understanding of at the moment). It is a fantastic time for Physics, there is so much that we still do not know and we are in an age of technology where we can begin to really delve into these mysterious depths of Physics.

The next decade or so is going to be incredibly interesting for High Energy Physics and cosmology, even this Summer could have the potential to bring about some more fascinating discoveries due to the LHC coming back online at double the energy of previous runs (it will now run at ~14 TeV if everything goes to plan).

Robosapien · 21 May 2015 at 00:50

Orionaut said:
ISTR seeing a NASA documentory that stated that all the stars/matter in the observable universe (Assuming one ignored the gravitational consequences of doing this ) would fit into a volume only a couple of LY across.

Space is pretty empty really!

Matter has a lot of 'empty space' inbetween all those forces propping up it's structure too. There's just, emptiness,...everywhere....