Trust me I do not have any extra ordinary interest in galaxies and pictures taken through space telescopes but often one finds things that are worth mentioning to the masses. The thing to wonder is that what is so interesting about the galaxy picture you see above?
The Sharpest Galaxy Image Ever Taken
The picture you see above is rescaled and resized version of the sharpest image ever taken of the large “grand design” spiral galaxy M81. The actual size of the original picture that was taken through the Hubble Space Telescope is no less than 700 MB alone (almost 1 GB wow!). The image was released on 9 June 2007 at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Hubble Telescope and The Spiral Galaxy
Thanks to the sharp view of the Hubble Space Telescope it was successful enough to resolve individual stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even glowing regions of fluorescent gas of the galaxy that is located 11.6 million light-years away.
The original image has a resolution of 22620×15200 pixels and a size of 706 MB only!
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0710a.tif
You can also download a low resolution 4000×2688 version of the image which is only 6.2 MB in size!
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/publicationjpg/heic0710a.jpg
and if you are lazy enough to give it a try. Just see the image posted on top of this story and it is just a smaller version of the original.
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