NASA Has Released The Largest Picture Ever Taken

[knocker]

 

Have you seen the largest picture ever taken? For the record, it's a mammoth 1.5 billion pixel image (69, 536 x 22, 230) and requires about 4.3 GB disk space. Oh, and it'll take your breath away.

 

On January 5, NASA released an image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The full image is made up of 411 Hubble images, takes you through a 100 million stars and travels over more than 40,000 light years. Well, a section of it anyway.

 

Prepare to feel extremely tiny and insignificant as you marvel at this fly-through video created by YouTuber  daveachuk and make sure you stick around till the end. Seriously.

 

 

 

http://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/wow-nasa/

[Guest]

If you hand around for another 4 billion years or so Knocker you will be able to get a much closer view because that is when Andromeda is expected to collide with our galaxy

[Dorsetbred]

Amazing, thanks for that..

[Mesoscale]

If you guys are into space etc you should check out http://en.spaceengine.org

 

SpaceEngine - a free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.

I currently hold the biggest star found to date on this software! 15.993 AU (1.48664223 × 10⁹ miles [what ever that number means?] our sun is 432,450 miles across or 0.0046491 AU)


Plus heres some other screen shots from inside the software, all generated inside the game with no editing.

[Lauren]

Stuff like that and how insignificant we are (yet how important we think we are) will never cease to completely amaze me.