NASA takes worlds largest photo of closest galaxy (mind will explode)

[T150]

in 4 later

[Kblavkalash]

downloaded that 4+gb original image

not possible to open in linux

fml

[ausurfer]

why can't we build a bigger and better hubble telescope? Hubble is now almost 25 years old.

Get learnt, cuzzzz.


Dat dere James Webb Space Telescope:

[RippedManlet]

I thougt I read that NASA adds color to the pictures. Can anyone confirm? Or is this what the andromeda actually looks like though the telescope.

Andromeda looks NOTHING like it does in this picture through a telescope, NASA is using the world's most advanced telescope, with a huge aperture floating in space (so free of atmospheric turbulence / light pollution) and uses an extremely sensitive CCD camera that uses extremely long exposure times of several hours to collect as much light as possible, the end result is then heavily post processed to bring out the details.

I've seen Andromeda through my 12 inch telescope, it literally looks like a faint smudge across the sky, if you got a bigger telescope however and viewed it from a light pollution free area and let your eyes dark adapt you'd definitely pick up the dust lanes and the galactic core would be very prominent, you'd see no color though however.

Even if it is only a faint smudge through my eyepiece, it's still mindblowing that I'm viewing an object nearly 15 thousand quadrillion miles away.

[Pablo237]

[doyouMiscMe]

Instead of funding Misc island we should be trying to fund Misc spacecraft

[LoveToSpoog]

And to think that some people actually believe that we are the only intelligent life forms that exist.

Maybe, Almost impossible that we will come into contact with intelligent life though. Unless our current understanding of astrophysics is completely wrong

[M0hi]

Love astronomy threads, many an afternoon were spent watching science/discovery channel

[Fang2]

I wonder if in other universes, there are FTL travel.

[tunafishha]

Its pretty cool how we came about in all this nothingness. Also it doesn't matter how big a galaxy or planet we find, everything seems to be fractal. Count your blessings mang

[LikeAPhxRising]

It brings a smile to my face knowing that there's an alien likeaphxrising out there smashing major alien puss right now.

I can go to sleep at night living my life through that brah.

[Big Natural]

Much wow.

[ComeAsUR]

the most beautify thing I've seen in a while... but i hate when people bring up aliens when they see chit like this...

[steeperdolphin]

the most beautify thing I've seen in a while... but i hate when people bring up aliens when they see chit like this...

you mean life on other planets? Why does that bother you?

[Tbone991]

And to think that some people actually believe that we are the only intelligent life forms that exist.

dw brah no ones putting you in that category

[BroHusky]

I'm way too ****ing dumb with this chit to talk about life forms and stuff, but mindblown

[TFMOA]

If you're interested in that video, check out the one below, it honestly makes me feel smaller than the one posted in the OP. It starts at Earth, and basically backs out all the way to the largest scale of the known universe...

[brent89]

why can't we build a bigger and better hubble telescope? Hubble is now almost 25 years old.

I think it's the world's biggest bitch to do. They said hubble is a engineering marvel and making another just isn't possible. I don't even think they made most of it using computers since it was so long ago which is pretty ****ing impressive.

[steeperdolphin]

en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Five_hundred_met...
Mobile-friendly - It will be the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope and three times more sensitive than the Arecibo Observatory. It will have a cost ... "China building world's biggest radio telescope"

[nonamewut]

my thoughts when they had finished zooming in and hoovered over the galaxy

our brothers and sisters



















hold me, feel cold my fans

[Realityy]

damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[et3rnal]

And to think that some people actually believe that we are the only intelligent life forms that exist.

jesus fukk..... every time i see anything about space, i think this same thing man. mind blown at the magnitude of the universe.... but equally at the close mindedness of most humans

[BornToConquer]

Many of the stars we are looking at are most likely dead by the time we are observing them - turned into white dwars, black holes or neutron stars

Its really thought provoking - observing the life signs of an object that is already dead

[nonamewut]

but like zuggie said, how do you know how many starts are actually from Andromeda in that picture? It's zoomed so much that it's possible you are watching stars of other galaxies right through the Andromeda.

the small specy cluster colours are stars from the andromeda, those big ones that stands out are prob stars from the milkyway that were in the crossfire/shot, or berhaps very big stars the the end of their galaxy, the side closest to us, but i doubt it, seing how much bigger they are

what do u guys think

[nonamewut]

why are these spots identical? does it have to do with how the image loaded in patches as you hoovered over it with max zoom? or how the camera worked at collecting the light while taking the photo?

http://i.imgur.com/9Uh3WI6.jpg

[Landor]

Humans are so self centered. We act as if we were the goal of life to begin with. We were not the goal we are the result. I would be willing to bet intelligent life is as simple to the universe as getting pregnant is to a human female. Bro-science at it's finest.

[YoungBuilder315]

My heart skipped a beat. Then I am saddened when I realize we're all worrying and messing around with such trivial, petty problems in the world. We'd all be in space by now if it wasn't for many toxic aspects of humanity that won't go away. It also annoys me that I'll probably die just as space exploration starts to take off.

Don't talk like that I WILL BE HERE

[ausurfer]

Many of the stars we are looking at are most likely dead by the time we are observing them - turned into white dwars, black holes or neutron stars

Its really thought provoking - observing the life signs of an object that is already dead

When you look out at night, 99.999% of the stars still exist.

When you look at andromeda, most of the stars still exist.

The shortest lived stars are the largest, and they last for 10's of millions of years. The smaller stars however, can last for trillions of years.

the small specy cluster colours are stars from the andromeda, those big ones that stands out are prob stars from the milkyway that were in the crossfire/shot, or berhaps very big stars the the end of their galaxy, the side closest to us, but i doubt it, seing how much bigger they are

what do u guys think

The 'large' stars are ones from the Milky Way.

[nonamewut]

the grand scheme of things isnt even in the grand scheme of things. eventually the universe will burn out followed by an eternity of nothingness

our* universe :]

the one that whose mass once was packed so dense that it exploded, or came from somewhere else and ended up in our empty space

wonder whats outside of that or was before that ^^

so crazy, getting dizzy thinking about it

[therealistwat]

I thought the universe is just one big infinite singularity that happens and ends an infinite amount of times.


Also I see why Elon Musk wants to die on Mars, theres no saving this planet. Really hope space travel becomes a thing. What sucks is by the time we reach somewhere else, that place would have already been dead, and then you cant go back to Earth because it most likely will be gone too.