Posted on 04/26/2005 10:52:37 AM PDT by Wolfstar
A new view of the Eagle Nebula, one of the two largest and sharpest images Hubble Space Telescope has ever taken, is released by NASA for Hubble's 15th anniversary April 25, 2005. The new Eagle Nebula image reveals a tall, dense tower of gas being sculpted by ultraviolet light from a group of massive, hot stars. During the 15 years Hubble has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 700,000 photos of the cosmos.
All information and images will be most welcome. I don't have time, now, but will explain why tomorrow.
A very beautiful and apt analogy. I agree. It does remind one of that painting.
"A new view of the Eagle Nebula"
I don't understand what the Eagle Nebula is (what and where). I mean, I get the nebula part:
"nebula: a. A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness depending on the way the mass absorbs or reflects incident radiation.
b. See galaxy." (dictionary.com)
How big is it?
Where is the Whirlpool Galaxy?
The Whirlpool Galaxy photo in Post #1 confuses me. I have no idea why there are two images in it. What is the one on the right? Is it a composite photo?
And per post 104, how did Howard Dean's face get that far out into orbit?
Thanks for urging me to inquire.
Happy fourth FreeRepublic anniversary.
WOW! Spectacular! Now I have to admit that if I were pressed to use that image as a Rorschach test, I'd say it looks like someone giving the finger. LOL!
Assuming 1 meg per pic...750 megs per CD....around a hundred thousand CDs.
Single layer DVDs hold around 4,400 megs so, around 17,000 DVDs.
But that assumes dithering....I'm betting a lot of the raw pictures are upwards of 30 megs or more, uncompressed.
Any way you cut it, you're gonna need a new DVD rack.
I knew it. Probably some grungy picnic cooler blown off a passing pickup truck.
Before I go on, a big public "shout-out" to Radio Astronomer. Just to clarify, the astronomical pictures are only in one color. To get the full color pictures like those seen above, three or four of these 50-500 MB images must be combined. Lots and lots of data to sift through...
Beautiful!
WOW some really nice shots on that site. didn't hubble take more shots then this?
Even before the loss of the shuttle NASA was having conferences on the termination of Hubble. One speaker described it as being like putting your faithful old dog to sleep, heartbreaking but something that had to be faced.
We are dealing with what the Russians had to face when they sent MIR down to its destruction.
It makes one wonder how beautiful God must be! His creation could never be more gorgeous than Him.
We're all in for a wonderful surprise.
I guess I haven't had enough beers yet.
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