Breathtaking 2.5 GIGApixel image of the galaxy, page 1

Time to change your wallpapers folks.
This is from the Spitzer space telescope and is a composite of 800,000 different images.
quite breathtaking!!

Discover news article-
blogs.discovermagazine.com...

Spitzer homepage-
www.spitzer.caltech.edu...

6.5mb picture for download
ipac.jpl.nasa.gov...

reply to post by Enrikez

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Here ya go buddy. The 2 most notable pictures.



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Great pic's!

What I’d love to see is our galaxy looking in from outside of it, so we could see it as a whole galaxy, I know it's not possible but if you think about it in SCI-FI terms, with a series of probes released from an anti-gravity propelled rocket relaying back data from the mother rocket with imaging technology, it could be done, ok it would take a while to get out of our galaxy but the results would be amazing... and don't take that seriously, it's not possible end of, but a man can dream

Galaxy not unlike ours

reply to post by Majestic RNA

Wouldn't that be amazing? Imagine the math involved in determining the best distance and the angle of width the camera would be for an optimal view!
some pretty big numbers.

I know, 'VonDoomen' the mind boggles.
But I would say this, if we (the Earth) are on the edge of a spiral arm as is suggested, the direction to go would be up out of our solar system, then head out towards the centre of the galaxy always heading up and away towards the galaxy Andromeda, if you think about it we have a great vantage point hear on Earth to view Andromeda, so it would make sense the same would be true if they were viewing us... so to go in between Andromeda and the Earth would seem to be the best vantage point,…. and hey, it's all pie in the sky stuff, the amount of time it would take to get out of our own galaxy is phenomenal, but we can dream

Where we live

reply to post by Majestic RNA

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I would say, if you aren't busy dreaming, its time to get busy dying!

hmm i may have to make that a quote in my profile now

Originally posted by VonDoomen
reply to post by Majestic RNA

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I would say, if you aren't busy dreaming, its time to get busy dying!

hmm i may have to make that a quote in my profile now

Heh, good quote

I guess dreaming is part of us as a species, we wouldn't have half the technology we have if it wasn't for our dreams and aspirations.....

reply to post by VonDoomen

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Is there a way to get a larger version of the first one? Whenever I click on it at the site it just points me to the mosaic version.

Edit: Oh nevermind, I see now that it's a crop of one of the tiles. Would be nice if they had something inbetween 900x492 and 24752x13520 for their pictures

Don't have the software to open the high res ones.

[edit on 12/3/2009 by somedude]

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