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Downloadable High-res Hubble images
Jasper - 18/5/10 at 03:10 PM

Here are the top 100 NASA Hubble images, all on super high-res Tiff images, available for download:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/

Link on the left.

Or if you'd rather Bit Torrent:

http://mintorrent.se/tWpFpT/top100original.torrent

Gonna have them on my Plasma on a slide show

jossey - 18/5/10 at 03:15 PM

cooooooooooool

Mix - 18/5/10 at 04:59 PM

Hi

Stunning!!

For a technophobe, how do I get those images as a slide show on my desktop?

Regards Mick

MakeEverything - 18/5/10 at 05:20 PM



... As Salron looks lover us!!! (the lord of the rings fans will get that!!)

Confused but excited. - 18/5/10 at 07:52 PM

You couldn't even begin to image stuff that awesome.

scootz - 18/5/10 at 08:25 PM

Amazing Amazing Amazing!

I wish I could comprehend what goes on up there, but whenever I start to think about infinity I just end up with a headache after a few minutes and have to give up!

iank - 18/5/10 at 08:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MakeEverything


... As Salron looks lover us!!! (the lord of the rings fans will get that!!)


Sauron?

scootz - 18/5/10 at 08:38 PM

See... this is what happens!

Just been whizzing through Wiki trying to better understand The Universe, but now my head is spinning!

Tried reading about Supermassive Black Holes... none the wiser - could anyone explain in (the most basic of) lay-mans terms!?

scudderfish - 18/5/10 at 09:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Tried reading about Supermassive Black Holes... none the wiser - could anyone explain in (the most basic of) lay-mans terms!?


They suck.

Liam - 18/5/10 at 09:08 PM

Well, just a really big black hole pretty much. Probably the result of lots of normal black holes (collapsed individual stars) merging over the course of time. You wouldn't want to get too close to one.

scootz - 18/5/10 at 09:08 PM

Thanks... why?

scootz - 18/5/10 at 09:16 PM

This explains it... kind of!

New Scientist Linky

JoelP - 18/5/10 at 09:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scootz
This explains it... kind of!

New Scientist Linky


simples!

Jon Ison - 18/5/10 at 09:29 PM

So come on guys, there's something out there, there's got to be, yes ?


posted by a believer.

scootz - 18/5/10 at 09:36 PM

There does appear to be quite a lot of things out there... planets, stars, galaxies, black-holes, etc!

iank - 18/5/10 at 09:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Thanks... why?


Spaghettification - really!!!

- basically the gravitational force on your feet will be larger than your head (assuming you're pointing at it feet first) so you stretch a little increasing the effect and stretch a bit more, pretty soon you're pulled into a very long thin dead thing.

[Edited on 18/5/10 by iank]

scootz - 18/5/10 at 09:39 PM

Cool!

Liam - 18/5/10 at 09:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by iank
...pretty soon you're pulled into a very long thin dead thing.


Speak for yourself. I could take it. And swim out afterwards.

scootz - 18/5/10 at 09:47 PM

Can you make sure you have a camcorder with you when you do it!

Cheffy - 18/5/10 at 09:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Amazing Amazing Amazing!

I wish I could comprehend what goes on up there, but whenever I start to think about infinity I just end up with a headache after a few minutes and have to give up!


Wot he said!

Mart.

gingerprince - 18/5/10 at 10:06 PM

<holly>
Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
</holly>

Jasper - 19/5/10 at 09:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Mix
Hi

Stunning!!

For a technophobe, how do I get those images as a slide show on my desktop?

Regards Mick


Download the zip file on the link on the left, either highres of low res, depending on your connection speed.

They will end up on your PC in one folder. Move that folder to your 'My Pictures' folder. Open up the folder, then click on the button at the top of the screen which will say 'Slide Show' and off you go. Or open up one image in Windows picture viewer, then click on the icon under the picture that looks like a projection screen.

BTW - for added effect play some nice spacey music in the background when watching.

I sat having my breakfast this morning watching them as a slide show on my 42" plasma - stunning ....

David Jenkins - 19/5/10 at 11:29 AM

quote:
Originally posted by gingerprince
<holly>
Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
</holly>


I liked Holly... best bit of Red Dwarf.

But... because anything that gets too close gets torn apart, chucking out all sorts of radiation (light, x-rays, etc) in the process. So you can't see the black hole, but you can tell where it is (assuming that there is stuff around it, and it's not just drifting around in empty space).

scootz - 19/5/10 at 11:46 AM

But what's inside it... and where does it lead to?

<confusedsmiley>

Irony - 19/5/10 at 12:10 PM

I am not sure that 'Black Hole' is a very good name for them. Surely 'hole' implies you can go through into another area or location.

I think that 'Black really really massive thing with so much gravity that you can get sucked in and stand a good chance of being turned into a Italian snack' is a much snappier title.

I remember my science teacher telling me that the stuff that makes up a white dwarf star is sooo massive that a single teaspoon full can weigh a millions tonnes. I then went home and told my Dad this. He said 'listen son, I'm and engineer and that's just not possible'. No wonder his firm went bust.

[Edited on 19/5/10 by Irony]

[Edited on 19/5/10 by Irony]