24GB 9 Billion pixel space picture.

[sityeuropa]

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]

108199 x 81503 px

Stunning. Using the "zoom tool".

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

 

[Jumper118]

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

 

[estebanrey]

108199 x 81503 px

Lucky I just bought a 108K monitor today

 

[cainer]

i counted 103,407,987,629 stars

 

[Will Gill]

Very cool, makes me feel rather tiny

 

[snips86x]

wow!

 

[Skull]

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]

Could at least have had the pic in the op .

 

[ElliorR]

My god, it's full of stars.

 

[G-MAN2004]

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

 

[George Hincapie]

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]

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

 

[sityeuropa]

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

 

[Robosapien]

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]

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

It just boggles my mind.

 

[Orionaut]

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]

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!

 

[PhysicsMan94]

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]

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....