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- tpodr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+145Not an observation, but an artist's impression of a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters.
Featured as NASA's "Image of the Day" yesterday.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_805.html - Cyre, on 10/12/2007, -10/+92Buried as inaccurate, it's not a picture taken by NASA.
- deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+68Just for the record, THIS is the most awesome picture taken by NASA.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040309.html - deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -4/+57If you thought that was a real picture, I've got a Da Vinci I'd like to sell you.
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48"http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire_collection/pr2000006a/large_web"
What the hell? . . .is that nebulae giving me the middle finger? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41The next time you want to post a comment, don't.
- Satanael, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Title: "Picture of Space by NASA"
Description: "I don't know what it's a picture of or who took it." - EztliNahua, on 10/12/2007, -8/+39Thanks for the info! I wish it was a picture, but its still incredible/amazing/best-artist's-impression-EVER. /cliches
Wallpapers:
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2430/174503mainimagefeature8ve6.jpg
1680x1050 crop, version A
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/4996/174503mainimagefeature8bb1.jpg
1680x1050 crop, version B (I like this one better)
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1280x800 crop, version A
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1280x800 crop, version B - tahillia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I don't care if it's photoshopped or not... I'm just glad the submitter didn't give it the title, "MOST AMAZING picture of space EVER taken!!!!!"
- EztliNahua, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire_collection/pr2000006a/large_web
Taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space can look really fake but be real. - Daiken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I have to agree with the above poster. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is THE best picture taken by NASA. Wanna know why? Because it's the first and one of the only pictures that really gives you any real sense of how tiny and insignificant we are. We can barely explore our own solar system let alone our galaxy. Yet looking at that picture, will make you realize how there are billions of other galaxies, many probably even larger than our own, just out there. Now whether that makes you think that we're alone, or that there are other races out there, or if God exists, is up to you. The great thing is it'll make everyone think.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I wish that comment made sense.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I would do that, but it looks too good for me not to dig it.
- stou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Orion Nebula in True Color:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Orion.nebula.arp.750pix.jpg
http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/m42/
See it _can_ look like that. - silverchrysalis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11ok... bye
- BESTenemy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9 You know how to tell whether the image is fake or not? The lens flare or the halo shape. Notice how the central star has multi-end halo, few have 4-beam halos and the rest don't have any? What determines the shape of the lens flare is the iris of the camera the image is taken with - the number of metal blades that form the opening. Since the whole image has to be take through one lens, it cannot possibly have different shape halo's or lens flares as all are determined by the same iris.
Nice picture nevertheless. Good art work. - PvtJenkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If I'm not mistaken, even that picture has been "artificially colored". In reality, that nebula would look just a little bit dusty, almost like a ghost, and probably VERY faint. It wouldn't be that glorious red. I remember there was an article on digg not to long ago that talked about how these renders are a lot different than the real thing. It's depressing, but true.
- stou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@EztliNahua If you look long enough on the nasa image site (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html) you are going to find a lot of pictures that look similar to that, some are false-color some are real HST pictures. There is no reason why there can't be something that looks like that artist impression, but is "real".
- Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4new wall paper
- habitforming, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8The ALT text of the image on this page (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_805.html) says that its an Artsits impression... Case closed
- Destined, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Uh, you did read the first comment, did you not? It points out the page that links to the image as it being "an artist's impression". However, the title is a bit inaccurate as it's not a picture taken by NASA.
- Sealab2021, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I just found a new desktop background:)
- gllopc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Right. This just proves that there is at least one painter.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So, this time you can truly say - 'shopped!
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thank you digg, i just found my new desktop background.
- caoimhinn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I love how habitforming's comment--arguably the most important comment on this page--is dugg down.
- Boor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've had this picture as my desktop background for at least a month. It's a good picture even if it wasn't taken by NASA.
- deathdefyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wish people would read before digging these.
- DJPRIME90, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3*sets as wallpaper*
- KMye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It needs a full moon and some howling wolves...
- einstevo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2right, so what I'm saying is that the ARTIST created their IMPRESSION of a quasar at high redshift by taking a few pre-existing images and stitching them together in photoshop amongst some of their own brushstrokes. It's a pretty picture. It's not unetheical to stitch public domain pictures together. The original images are just fun to pick out.
- leatherback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Down there on the right...its a wormhole.
- gostars, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Not a photograph. This is the work of an artist. Bury.
- jkalow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3read the first comment and you might understand
- bouche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2holy ***** that's a nice image. i don't care how it was made. That's what space is like space in star trek movies.
- djepik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The 80s called, they want their t-shirt design back.
- moocow1452, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A week from now, 2:1 odds that somebody has photoshopped the Enterprise onto this pic.
- gllopc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If Bob Ross were to paint the cosmos...
"And a tiny little quasar right over there. Hey there little guy!" - JJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man I was fooled into thinking this was real, it's still a nice artwork nonetheless...
- PaulLev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's always art in photography. It's nice to see it applied to deep space. http://www.paullevinson.net/archives/entries/books_by_paul.phtml#realspace
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buried as Inaccurate. The title clearly misleads Diggers into thinking that this is a photo by using the word "picture".
I was intrigued until reading in the first comment that this is an "artist's impression of a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters."
BTW, the Eye of God is much better than this one, not to mention it is based on actual photos.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030510.html - FDenD, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Just look at the Orion nebulous and you can see stars being formed.
- Redwop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This looks like something out of The Fountain.
- Heroville, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ladies and gentlemen, Valhalla
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http://www.r563.com - hypnotoad32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hear voices... does that count?
- skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Add HDR and long exposure too.
- tektalk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow!, either way if it's fake or not, I held my breath for a second.
- shagen454, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If they had, I'm sure they would have come back and started the most intergalactic sounding space rock band, ever.
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