Cool! Thank you, Bad Astronomer! It's like the blue clouds are hands separating the cosmos to get a better look at the yawning chasm that is IRS4!

/Opps, wait ...

Click to ennbulenate

That's a perfectly crommulent word.

Sigh, another terribly boring astronomy picture...

*click*

Holy shiat.

Does the Hubble have a star filter?

That pic is glorious.

GreatGlavinsGhost: Cool! Thank you, Bad Astronomer! It's like the blue clouds are hands separating the cosmos to get a better look at the yawning chasm that is IRS4!

/Opps, wait ...

Actually, it looks like giant blue boobies enveloping a...

well, you get the idea.

It's a Christmas angel!

Carousel Beast: GreatGlavinsGhost: Cool! Thank you, Bad Astronomer! It's like the blue clouds are hands separating the cosmos to get a better look at the yawning chasm that is IRS4!

/Opps, wait ...

Actually, it looks like giant blue boobies enveloping a...

well, you get the idea.

I think you're onto something here ... replace that old inkblot test with astronomy photo-reading!

Hell, astronomy photo-reading could replace a whole lootta things!

Okay, Billy, show me on the photo where the bad man touched you ...

Their "very big" version isn't very big. Is there a way to get a 1080p+ version?

Carousel Beast: GreatGlavinsGhost: Cool! Thank you, Bad Astronomer! It's like the blue clouds are hands separating the cosmos to get a better look at the yawning chasm that is IRS4!

/Opps, wait ...

Actually, it looks like giant blue boobies enveloping a...

well, you get the idea.

I concur...

THERE ARE FOUR LOBES!

How exactly did they come up with 30 octillion tons...?

i really don't see the floermoer baby. I see something like a sorceress with 2 blue flaming jets extending from her back outwards and backwards.

Coriantumr:
Their "very big" version isn't very big. Is there a way to get a 1080p+ version?

I tried GISing "Sharpless 2-106" to see if I could find something for my desktop (3360 x 1050). No luck yet, but Jimi Hendrix shows up at the bottom of page 2 of my results, and I got a couple of Salvadoran bank notes on page 3. Lolwut?

the universe is neat

Coriantumr: Their "very big" version isn't very big. Is there a way to get a 1080p+ version?

Can't help you with the progressive scan part, but try this for higher resolution images. Genearlly speaking, you can always dig around on their site a bit to find some better stuff.

I thought that said "tauntaun". *sigh*

GentlemanJ: How exactly did they come up with 30 octillion tons...?

There's a couple ways. You can study nearby objects whose mass you know to see how this is affected and this affects them in turn. In this case, the astronomers probably used the mass-luminosity relation that can give you a good ballpark mass for most stars, based on how bright it is: Luminosity ~= Mass ^ 3.5.

We can tell how bright it is, so it's trivial to deduce an approximate mass.

It's aliens. They saw our measly little a-bomb tests back in the day.
We just saw the result of an alien version of "watch this... Hold my beer..."

Is that you, god?

jdjoker: Coriantumr:
Their "very big" version isn't very big. Is there a way to get a 1080p+ version?

I tried GISing "Sharpless 2-106" to see if I could find something for my desktop (3360 x 1050). No luck yet, but Jimi Hendrix shows up at the bottom of page 2 of my results, and I got a couple of Salvadoran bank notes on page 3. Lolwut?

This one is 3000 x 2400, if that helps. You might trim off the border, though.

jdjoker: Coriantumr:
Their "very big" version isn't very big. Is there a way to get a 1080p+ version?

I tried GISing "Sharpless 2-106" to see if I could find something for my desktop (3360 x 1050). No luck yet, but Jimi Hendrix shows up at the bottom of page 2 of my results, and I got a couple of Salvadoran bank notes on page 3. Lolwut?

CAUTION, or you'll get sucked into the Google Images Black Hole, From Whence There Is No Escape.

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Uhh....

Caution.

For those wanting a bigger image, here you go.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/38/image/a/war n /

4356x3202

All I see is a cosmic gas giant Goatse.

Well, hello there little fella. Welcome to my desktop.

/hat tip for the full size link

I see boobs too. Or a actually a woman putting on a pinchy bra.

Link (new window) 4,356px × 3,202px found it using a reverse google image search

Moonk: Link (new window) 4,356px × 3,202px found it using a reverse google image search

and yes i just saw the link above

First thought upon seeing it... boobies!

Head_Shot: It's indescribably beautiful!!! It's like the fourth of July!!!

It must be Italian!

The Bad Astronomer: bigmattress: Does the Hubble have a star filter?

It has a metal frame that holds the secondary mirror in place, and light diffracts around it. They're called diffraction spikes. They're pretty, but they do sometimes get in the way of the science...

Thank you!