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| 700 mb picture-1st time ever
700 mb picture! taken by Hubble Space Telescope
The sharpest
image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 was
released 9. June 2007 at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
A spiral-shaped system of stars, dust, and gas
clouds, the galaxy's arms wind all the way down into the nucleus.
Though the galaxy is located 11.6 million light-years away, the Hubble
Space Telescope's view is so sharp that it can resolve individual
stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even
glowing regions of fluorescent gas. The Hubble data was taken with the
Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2004 through 2006. This colour composite
was assembled from images taken in blue, visible, and infrared light.
Full Size Image
Warning! Massive file! 22620x15200p (706mb!)
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0710a.tif
Smaller picture for people without hightech performance machines:
Reduced Size
4000x2688p (6,2mb)
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/publicationjpg/heic0710a.jpg
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