This image comes in 7 different flavors, depending on your connection speed. I downloaded the 2.49 mb .JPG file and am currently downloading the 76 MB TIFF file. If you have the connection speed (or patience) and your PC has the resources to open these larger images, they are definitely worth looking at. The sheer number of galaxies that are visible behind this galaxy is incredible.
Gary 24 Hours of Hubble's Life A new Hubble Space Telescope image, released yesterday, shows what a little patience can produce. The picture is of a spiral galaxy named NGC 3370, about 98 million light-years away. The galaxy was imaged for the purpose of ferreting out variable stars. To do so, astronomers needed to make pictures frequent and often. Over time, a lot of photons were collected -- the combined exposure time amounted to about 24 hours. So Hubble officials decided to put it all together for what they say is one of the deepest images Hubble has ever made. This depth is most apparent in the thousands of galaxies astronomers can see behind NGC 3370 in the highest-resolution version of the composite photograph. (Only a handful are visible in this version, but you can download a "massive" tiff file here.) The image covers a region of space about 95,000 light-years wide. Hubble's days, by the way, are numbered. NASA plans to de-orbit the venerable observatory in 2010. It would be destroyed during re-entry. Images can be accessed here.... http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_030905.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
