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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Where can I find the high res image?

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the high-res! Was able to confirm there's no way it's more than 9,999,797.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Huh, I counted 10,000,014. I must have counted a few twice, I'll have to start over.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Did you double count altaris 31b? It's a pretty common mistake

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There are still some blurry ones in the back, how can I enhance them?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Get cast in a cop/spy/sci-fi drama on TV, have an assistant pull up the image on a screen, then simply say "Enhance" out loud.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you spend five seconds ‘poring over it’ you’ll also be able to spot ‘unmistakable signs’ of ‘alien civilisations’ with your butt-nekked eyebawllz.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The original image is 50,000 x 25,000 so it's possible that this is the maximum resolution possible

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait it’s all sand?

Always has been 🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Can someone explain to a layman what that less dense (appears darker) area is about? Just a random section of fewer stars or something else?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's not gas that's making it dark, its dust, small particles made out of some combination of iron, silicates, carbonaceous materials, and other elements.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Neat, thanks

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Funny how stars and the CMB both look like static on a screen.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Aw they all look so happy together! Makes me feel like our little Sol is lonesome way out here

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Looks like the bottom of my bowl after eating cinnamon toast crunch.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's wild that clouds in space just look like... Clouds.

And yet it's as large as a solar system or more.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I bet if we blur it a bit and do an image search with it, we'd get pictures of a drink sitting on a beach and it's shadow.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Use it as seed for generative aí

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If that's pointing at the center of the galaxy, where's the supermassive black hole?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We're near the end of one of the arms of the milky way. There's trillions of stars in between us and the center of the galaxy.

The only real way we'd get an actual image of the center of the milky way is if we somehow maintained connection to a telescope that was billions of light-years away.

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