Hum Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 (edited) (SPACE.com) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image ever taken of a spiral galaxy. Astronomers stitched together 51 separate images from Hubble -- with a few other details from ground-based instruments -- to build this mosaic of Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. At an impressive 16,000 by 12,000 pixels, the image is the largest and most detailed ever caught of a spiral galaxy. The Pinwheel Galaxy is about 170,000 light-years wide, almost twice the diameter of our own Milky Way, and is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. Astronomers believe that perhaps 100 billion of those stars may be similar to our sun, and millions of individual objects can be picked from this image. The galaxy itself sits about 25 million light-years away toward the northern constellation Ursa Major. source Link to High-rez photo Edited March 2, 2006 by Hum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 That's really beautiful. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymunky Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Amazing. To me things like this are just too incomprehendable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStoo Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Superb image! It really is. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted March 4, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 4, 2006 What if there is another Earth in that galaxy. Just think about it. :| Some other life forms (whether homo sapiens or not), just living somewhere out there. Crazy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudworth Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Awww, I thought the high-res link was going to be to the 16000x12000 version :p Beatiful picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azusa Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 did someone say Spiral? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 What if there is another Earth in that galaxy. Just think about it. :| Some other life forms (whether homo sapiens or not), just living somewhere out there. Crazy.. The Creator wasted a lot of effort if there isn't life in that galaxy. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~WinGz~ Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 this is so beautiful. this is going into my astronomy folder. Also its amazing how many stars there are in a picture. you cannot even comphrend the size of the galaxy just from the photo. But this galaxy is Emense. I wonder if there is life also on one of those planets near the stars. better bring out the shades time to start going intergalatic roadtrips. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted March 5, 2006 Author Share Posted March 5, 2006 :happy: Yes, it is very beautiful and immense --- I downloaded the wallpaper version and put it on my laptop as my screen. What's fascinating is, you can see yet another galaxy, much further off behind the Pinwheel. Mind boggling ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thermal+paste Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 :happy: Yes, it is very beautiful and immense --- I downloaded the wallpaper version and put it on my laptop as my screen. What's fascinating is, you can see yet another galaxy, much further off behind the Pinwheel. Mind boggling ... Your posts always make me happy hum. Thanks for the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 The Creator wasted a lot of effort if there isn't life in that galaxy. ;) There is no creator, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kin Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 so purrty :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackhbob Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 16000 x 12000 and a link to a 1280x1024 pic is considered high resolution :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Wow! I'm godsmack :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni_78 Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 High Resolution Images JPEG 9.48 MB 6000 x 4690 pixels TIFF 22.89 MB 3600 x 2814 pixels JPEG 58.70 MB 15852 x 12392 pixels TIFF 442.34 MB 15852 x 12392 pixels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheElite Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 There is no creator, get this troll out of here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raid517 Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 On the contrary, I think you may be in the wrong section. GJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_sphinx_ Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 My God!! Its gorgeous. I'm using this as my wallpaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted March 16, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 16, 2006 mmm, purdy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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