Very Large Telescope Captures New 27-Megapixel Deep Field 131
xyz writes "European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has captured the deepest ground based U-band image of the universe yet. The image contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the VIMOS instrument. 'Galaxies were detected that are a billion times fainter than the unaided eye can see and over a range of colours not directly observable by the eye. This deep image has been essential to the discovery of a large number of new galaxies that are so far away that they are seen as they were when the Universe was only 2 billion years old.'"
Shortages? (Score:4, Insightful)
80 MB TIFF (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, Slashdot, pointing to an article that contains a link to the 80 MB TIFF image at full resolution. Feeling a bit sadistic today, are we? Oh well, I'm rather early so I clicked it nonetheless. Feeling like a bit of a egocentric sadist myself today.
It works without a hitch in the AlternaTIFF TIFF Image Viewer. You can clearly see the galaxies, but otherwise it is a large sheet of colored dots (as expected I suppose).
Fantastic (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:article image (Score:1, Insightful)
If you had clicked on the image in the article, you'd have been taken there automatically. Exactly what the hell is it that you were expecting? A full resolution image above the article text?
Re:Shortages? (Score:4, Insightful)
Time (Score:5, Insightful)
And here I am wasting it on Slashdot
Re:Only 27 megapixels? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Shortages? (Score:2, Insightful)
It's the same principle as ever, when awestruck in the face of beauty: "you can look, but you cannot touch".
That's what they said on Easter Island... (Score:3, Insightful)
And that's what most of the world is saying today.