"The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 was released 9. June 2007 at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
A spiral-shaped system of stars, dust, and gas clouds, the galaxy's arms wind all the way down into the nucleus. Though the galaxy is located 11.6 million light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope's view is so sharp that it can resolve individual stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even glowing regions of fluorescent gas. The Hubble data was taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2004 "through 2006. This colour composite was assembled from images taken in blue, visible, and infrared light. "
Fullsize original :
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0710a.tif
Warning! Massive file! 22620x15200p (706mb!)
Smaller picture for people without hightech performance machines:
The fullsize original is indeed really hard for computers to open, I have a Pentium 4 3Ghz 2GB DDR2 RAM machine, and it takes approx. 3-5 minutes for me to open it with photoshop!
PS - The pic shown is the pic that I'm talkin abt... And, in the original unresized pic.. An optical zoom of upto a 1000x is possible.. cool ain't it ? come on, a 700 mb pic... :O
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