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originally posted in:TFS The Floods Sanctuary
Edited by Jaaake AU:
4/2/2015 3:29:21 PM
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Hubble Telescope Takes 1.5 Billion Pixel Photo of Andromeda Galaxy
This is crazy. [url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/]Here is a link to the 'image' itself[/url]. Zoom in and the dots are apparently stars.
[quote]NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy. The image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has an amazing 1.5 billion pixels that would require 600 HD television screens to display in full.
The view shows the galaxy in its natural visible-light color as photographed in red and blue filters.
This image is too large to display at full resolution and is best viewed here, using the zoom tool.
Andromeda Galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 31, is a large spiral galaxy that lies "just" 2.5 million light years from Earth. Hubble's detailed view captures more than 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.
The whole galaxy contains over one thousand billion stars.
But the image represents just a third of the giant galaxy.[/quote]
http://blog.cosmosmagazine.com/blog/...billion-pixels
[i]Feel insignificant yet?
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Edited by WickedNavajo: 1/7/2015 2:55:08 AMI don't think I can comprehend being so insignificant in terms of the universe's volume. Instead, I'm going to say that, eventually, in billions of years or so, we might fully colonize every planet in the universe. What if we suffer from overpopulation again? Where will we go then? At that time, the [i]whole universe[/i] will feel to small to contain us all.. Or maybe I'm just overthinking it. Anyways, I won't be around to fear that, and I should probably focus on smaller things for now, like eating dinner.
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1 ReplyIt's swood and all but......when I zoom in it gets more pixalated than CoD WaW. Is it supposed to be like that or...
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2 RepliesOP pls, I already fell insignificant by being an Asian living in Texas.
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1 ReplyEdited by Weary Werewolf: 1/7/2015 1:11:02 AMneither link works
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*GetsVisiblyFlusteredOverDatPixelDensity*
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Look, whether God did this, or it just happened like this, i dont know. But i know its beautiful. Our minds literally [i]cannot[/i] wrap around the scope of that picture. As an amateur astronomer, i still feel like half a grain of sand every time i see a picture like this.
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3 RepliesI think the universe is so fascinating
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2 RepliesI've never felt significant
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My phone cannot handle it.
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2 RepliesEdited by Tartan 118: 1/6/2015 3:41:58 PM[quote][i]Feel insignificant yet?[/i][/quote] As one of only a few people in the world to see this so far, and knowing our species could one day sail by those stars, insignificant is not the word I would use to describe my feelings at this sight.
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[quote]Feel insignificant yet?[/quote] With this inflated ego?
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This looks shopped, I can tell from the pixels.
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That goodness I have 600 HD TVs, I will enjoy this picture.
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Edited by Vosscillate: 1/6/2015 5:18:45 AM[quote]Feel insignificant yet?[/quote] If I didn't before, I do now
