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The Deepest Photo Ever Taken

Posted by timothy on from the whoah-dude-that's-deeeeep dept.

Astroturtle writes "Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope's powerful new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) have taken the deepest visible-light image ever made of the sky. The 3.5-day (84-hour) exposure captures stars as faint as 31st magnitude, according to Tom M. Brown (Space Telescope Science Institute), who headed the eight-person team that took the picture."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. and NASA couldn't afford 1600... by neurostar · · Score: 4, Funny

    And, to think I used to complain about having to get the tripod out for exposures that were longer than 1/8th of a second! I'll never comlpain about slow film or lenses again!

    Yeah, and you'd think NASA could afford 1600 ASA film for the price they paid for hubble...
    I mean geez!

  3. Can't resist... by moertle · · Score: 0, Funny
    ... who headed the eight-person team that took the picture ...
    So how many astronomers does it take to change a light bulb?
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  4. Philosophy: The Deepest Thought Ever Thunk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aristotle writes: "Philosophers using the Bubble Head Telescope's powerful new Advanced Cognition for Sophistry (ACS) have taken the deepest thought ever thunk. The 3.5-day (84-hour) idea captures notions as powerful as 31 SBU (Silent Bob Units), according to Plato (The Platonic Academy), who headed the eight-person team that contemplated the thought."

  5. ...hubblesite.org collapses into a singularity by Leeji · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the love of all things scientific, have mercy on their 122MB TIFF image.

    And to think that we've turned servers into slag by Slashdotting a 43kb page.

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  6. Re:Shameless karma whoring: by Biogenesis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for the links, i've got it downloading in a new tab ri Segmentation Fault

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  7. i still think this image is deeper... by mattkime · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://sja.ucdavis.edu/images/einstein-lg.jpg

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  8. This has to be the most expensive by jkauzlar · · Score: 5, Funny

    desktop background ever created :) Its sure worth the effort, however!

  9. Damn, by fireman+sam · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd hate to have to hold my finger on the button for that long without shaking the camera.

    *This is a lame joke*

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  10. Holy cow! by polymath69 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Is that a Klingon Bird of Prey out in the distance?

    Unretouched excerpt from full-resolution image.

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  11. Re:So awesome it's philosophical. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The grandeur of such an image almost forces one to reasses their place in the world...The universe is unbelieveably amazing.

    That's excatly what I said when I saw goatse.

  12. Re:So awesome it's philosophical. by Threni · · Score: 2, Funny

    >The grandeur of such an image almost forces one to
    >reasses their place in the world

    Almost, but not quite. I'm pretty damned cool.

  13. How dissapointing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Is there anyone else out there who read the title and was let down by the fact that this had nothing to do with pornography?...