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Galaxiki Community BlogSubscribe via RSS Download Hubble's Sharpest Image Ever Of A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy (22620 x 15200 pixels)December 04, 2007by joskirps  Messier 81 is a large spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (that's quite close to Earth when considering cosmic dimensions). It's one of the most striking examples of a grand design spiral galaxy, with near perfect arms spiraling into the very center, which makes M81 one of the most often reprinted galaxies in magazines and on the web. It's active galactic Nucleus is expected to harbor a supermassive black hole.First discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1774, the galaxy is sometimes referred to as "Bode's Galaxy". On June 9. 2007, during the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, the sharpest photography ever taken of the M81 galaxy was revealed. It had been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, and it's 22620 x 15200 pixel resolution reveal an incredible amount of details, including individual stars. The image is available as download from ww.spacetelescope.org, but be careful, it's a 706 MB file! Here's a "small" size JPEG preview - 4000 x 2688 pixels, 6 MB: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/publicationjpg/heic0710a.jpg And here's the big one - TIFF image, 22620 x 15200 pixels, 706 MB: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0710a.tif
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