Another "OMG!" picture from the Hubble space telescope

[Archae]

The .jpg picture alone is about 2.5 megs, so on dialup it would take a while.
But talk about incredible, and truly lovely.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/01/image/a+warn

[Heidi]

1. Beautiful!

I just used it to replace my cat butts desktop image. :thumbsup:

[Robeson]

2. Great pic.....

...:thumbsup:

[fleabert]

3. wow. how old is the Hubble?

you would think we could make computers that don't crash due to a pic download if we could make the Hubble so many years ago and it still works so well.

mine didn't crash, btw, the beauty of cable... absolutely gorgeous photo. I'd like to have that blown up and superglued to my ceiling.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Oh. My. Dog.

That that occurred naturally is beyond my capacity to process. I almost can't believe it's not a painting.

Incredible.

[Archae]

5. And can you imagine just how frikkin' BIG it is?

Probably light-years across...:wow:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. No

I can't.

I've never been able to get my head around concepts such as eternity or infinity, and I struggle with things of immense size.

Last night I was reading about the Hindenburg, and I thought, 802 feet long — it'd need three football fields to land on. And the bloody thing flew.

I really wish I could've seen it.

[QuettaKid]

9. If you really want to wrap your mind around something impossibly vast,

just realize that that Hubble pic is only showing one tiny (relatively speaking) part of our own milky way galaxy. That is just one nebulae amongst millions. Then extrapolate from there and count the number of galaxies that we can see......the numbers just go on and on and on.

[Mutley]

7. Science Channel -- Tuesday nights -- Space Night!

Really cool stuff. :thumbsup:

[Clintmax]

8. That is fantastic!

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Goodbye racing car wallpapers, hello Orion Nebula. -nt

[baldguy]

11. Hubble doesn't do anything worthwhile.

It's old and should be scrapped. :sarcasm:

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050124/pf/050124-2_pf.html

[Mutley]

12. They're actually building a new and improved

deep space telescope that will be able to see much more than Hubble. I'd only be okay with scrapping Hubble if they could get that new baby up there.

[Bridget Burke]

15. The James Webb Space Telescope will "see" primarily in the infrared.

Good for research, but it will only have "some capability in the visible range." Don't expect a launch before 2013.

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

The Hubble will probably come down in 2010.

[Mutley]

18. Ah, see I was unaware that it was basically only infrared.

I heard people gushing about the infrared, but they didn't say it wouldn't be able to get a normal view as well. x(

[nutsnberries]

13. (gulllp) i see a wizard with his hand over the

whitish swirly part near the middle.

or is that the hand of God? Great Wizard in the Sky!!!

i don't know but me likey! thanks. :)

[Deja Q]

14. I'm diownloading the full-size TIF.

At 384MB, :wow: :bounce:

Nice o' them to share. :)

[VaYallaDawg]

16. Beautiful!

Thanks so much for finding and sharing!!

[myrna minx]

17. That is just breathtaking. Wow.

Thanks for posting this!

[pintobean]

19. That was weird.

When I downloaded it, it had the exact same file name as a pic of my nephew. I had to change the file name.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

20. It's looks like a fertilized egg

you know the blood spot? Or maybe a placenta.

Beautiful

[henslee]

21. neato

[tuvor]

22. Did you know that the colours are added in by a colourist?

No matter. That's truly awe-inspiring.

I feel very small right now.