NASA: Largest picture ever taken

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Released a week or so ago; a 1.5 billion pixel image and focus on the Andromeda Galaxy.
Prepare yourself to feel very insignificant.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-s-high-definition-panoramic-view-of-the-andromeda-galaxy/#.VLkTykeUcTo

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Holiday inn Wifi with a 0.27Mbps means I'm probably not going to click that link this evening. Looks like its an Infinite Monkey Cage Podcast again then......
 
If you like this stuff guys. Have a look for galaxy zoo on the inter web. A guy in my department Chris Lintott came up with it and it's really helping astro physics.
 
I don't know what it is about this topic, but it always gets me misty eyed.

Few years back my family & I visited Kennedy Space Centre - one of the attractions (for those that haven't been) is a replica mission control set of one of the Apollo Moon rocket launches.

They play a video of the launch as it happened, and the sounds & pictures are simply stunning... there are cardigans & jackets on the back of the seats just as there was back in the day.

Well after 10 minutes of that I was weeping like a child, as were a few of the other adults in the room.

My lad, who was only young at the time couldn't understand it...me neither :oops:
 
I love this sort of stuff - the Andromeda Galaxy contains over 1 trillion stars, and will eventually crash into the Milky Way. Which will get a bit messy. The high red images on the interweb are just awesome.

That portion that they cut out in the video, and which they took the image of, is 40,000 light years across and contains 100 million stars.
 
Another way of looking at it is, amongst all that there is only one of you, so in fact each one of you is significant :)

Tim.
 
Bing said:
That portion that they cut out in the video... ...is 40,000 light years across and contains 100 million stars.
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...and it's still not as large as PVR's ego... :P
 
PerryGunn said:
Bing said:
That portion that they cut out in the video... ...is 40,000 light years across and contains 100 million stars.
Click to expand...
...and it's still not as large as PVR's ego... :P
Click to expand...

It'll be 100+ years before they can photograph that, and even then it'll be fuzzy and indistinguishable with a slight whiff of tulips...
 
I noticed they took a picture of my garden when I left the light on :o
 
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