One of the coolest things I have ever seen

[dream431ca]

For all of you who want to see something a little different but pretty awesome is a picture of the orion nebula taken by the hubble space telescope. What's so special? The highest resolution picture I have ever seen. It's 18000x18000 making that out to 324000000 pixels. It's a 23MB Jpeg file...the biggest JPEG I have ever seen. Once you've downloaded it..if you have photoshop, load it up into it (and it will take at least 10 minutes to load up into photoshop), zoom in. You can see a remarkable amount of detail and some pretty awesome images.

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire_collection/pr2006001a/full_jpg.JPEG

Don't click on the TIFF file, as it's used for microsoft office and is 380MBs.

 

[panda_rage]

Nice! if onley there were photos of this resolution of the... no wait never mind.

 

[Ren.182]

It crashed my college computer ;(

*looks when he gets home.*

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

mmmmmmm, firefox crash :dozey: :| i wanna see it! :frown:

 

[Muffin Man]

i dont even have that much RAM *cries*

 

[AntiAnto]

Photoshop crashed....

 

[Muffin Man]

downloaded it, it hats my comp though, opened it in dfault viewer and it takes like a half a minute to zom in once !! lol nice find though, pimpin. I'ma see if i can find one that detailed of the eye of god nebula.

 

[clarky003]

That's beautiful, comp can just handle the zooming. Makes me want to beable to go there.

 

[Steven]

Jesus Christ, two 2GB of RAM to view an image.
(dl'ing)

 

[Cormeh]

Nah, that'll knacker my work's internet and my home computer. Any chance of seeing it at lower resolution at all? I know it'll sacrifice the detail, but it would still be impressive.

 

[Steven]

That burnt the shit out of my GPU and CPU.

 

[Que-Ever]

bah, it's photoshopped

 

[Qonfused]

Downloading.

Very cool. Just open it in Photoshop if you have a decent machine. Isn't too laggy for mine. Rofl, "Fit to Screen" is at 4.6%.

 

[TIIMMYY]

The image “http://imgsrc.stsci.edu/hu/db/2006/01/images/a/formats/full_jpg.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

 

[satch919]

It's a fantastic nebula. Many, if not all, of these pictures are false color images. The people who process these images usually add color to highlight details.

I want one of the Andromeda Galaxy.

 

[StardogChampion]

It's funny, open it in the windows viewer thing, then press ctrl-alt-del and watch the process RAM usage get bigger and bigger

 

[xcellerate]

is it higher than this picture??

http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm

 

[The Brick]

It's funny, open it in the windows viewer thing, then press ctrl-alt-del and watch the process RAM usage get bigger and bigger

Well whatever you do, DON"T OPEN THE IMAGE DIRECTLY FROM THE SITE IN YOUR BROWSER

CRASH AND

HOLY SHIIIIT

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Its a beautiful picture, i did the above as well, but my 512mb of RAM were fine, nothing went wrong. I opened it in paint shop pro 8 and it took a 4 minutes and i zoomed in and had a good look around. It really is a lovely shot.

 

[Teta_Bonita]

is it higher than this picture??

http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm

lol zoom in near the left corner of the building on the far right in that pic, theres a guy next to a blue sign that looks like he's in a painful position... D: It's kind of freaky acutally.

 

[StardogChampion]

lol zoom in near the left corner of the building on the far right in that pic, theres a guy next to a blue sign that looks like he's in a painful position... D: It's kind of freaky acutally.

Metropolis has Superman, that place has Submarine man. Duh.

 

[Beerdude26]

Yeah that picture was taken with a really long exposure time, which means some parts are missing. Me and my mates found a few walking heads

 

[Muffin Man]

ZoMG !

 

[DEATH eVADER]

So many people are downloading it, my transfer rate is getting smaller. It was at 200KB/s, its now down to 90KB/s

 

[Lucid]

edit : Nevermind... Downloaded it.

That is pretty nifty.
New wallpaper!

 

[DEATH eVADER]

least 926.97 MB of free RAM that is not being used by any other application, including your operating system.

Huh, no wonder my Dads computer slows down, he's got 512Mb. I need to transfer this to my comp, got more raw power (1.5Gb)

 

[Viperidae]

Pfft. Jpegs are for wussies. Tiff all the way.

 

[JNightshade]

It opened in like 10 seconds in PS for me. It is indeed very very awesome. I called my dad in, and showed him a tiny little bit of it. He was like "so?". Then I zoomed out. And out. And out. Andoutandoutandoutandoutandoutandout. He almost shat himself at the coolness.

 

[Ennui]

downloading...

 

[TheSomeone]

The people who process these images usually add color to highlight details. Just open it in Photoshop if you have a decent machine. lol nice find though, pimpin.

 

[15357]

Thats awesome, but when I clicked 'real size', it said after 30 seconds, "Drawing Failure"

I have 2 gigs of RAM, btw.

How do ye resize it to make it fit into 1920*1200 resolution?

 

[The Brick]

 

[spookymooky]

OMG! Teh High rezolution picture is teh fakezorz!