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KirisBeuller t1_iubr3gb wrote

To me it looks like a few celestial horses side by side getting ready to race.

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Alryc t1_iuc4a7z wrote

Can we get a 4k version so I can use this for my background? :)

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butchiebags OP t1_iuc5bls wrote

Replying to Alryc (#334,930)

This is “4k”. The horizontal resolution is 4k and vertical resolution is greater than 4k. Due to MIRI’s aspect ratio this is the best we can get from the released images. If we were able to see what was beyond each side of this image, I agree it would be a fantastic wallpaper, but it just has to be cropped for 16x9 unfortunately.

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Big-Attention-69 t1_iuc5jev wrote

I can't wrap the idea around my head that this image is waaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than i thought it would be. The farthest manmade object from earth which by the way is beyond the edge of the observable solar system right now is not even 1px distant from the sun. And this object took flight in the 70s

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butchiebags OP t1_iuc6u3i wrote

Replying to Alryc (#335,360)

Here’s a (not quite 4k) rotate and crop that I think looks pretty nice https://flic.kr/p/2nW6WMs I can do a higher-res version tomorrow.

edit: Here are the 4k and full-res versions rotated & cropped for 16:9. I also did a desaturated version that only takes color from Miri.

4k MIRI/NIRCAM: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52465939543_e5286e6779_o.png

4k MIRI/DesaturatedNIRCAM: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52465939683_e1d8720006_o.png

full-res MIRI/NIRCAM: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52464877652_41945019eb_o.png

full-res MIRI/DesaturatedNIRCAM: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52465928983_c874e031cc_o.png

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tei187 t1_iucpsb6 wrote

It's always funny to think that there are people right now who'd do anything to go there and see it, even though it's probably not there anymore.

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Dicer214 t1_iudj3ng wrote

Replying to LittleCorndawg2 (#341,675)

It’s kinda weird to think that, even though it’s “only” 6500 light years away, theoretically a giant alien space hoover could have come along and sucked everything up, and we’d have no way of knowing. It’s along the same vein of the sun could actually have exploded right this very second, but we wouldn’t know about it because the light hasn’t gotten here yet. Sorry for the random thought diarrhoea.

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LittleCorndawg2 t1_iudjxwz wrote

Replying to Dicer214 (#344,843)

No worries I live for random thought diarrhoea my man.

That's true but 6500 years is not a long time at all in these matters.

6500 years ago people were already using agriculture and shit. Sun has barely burped in that time.

It takes hundreds of millions of years just for earth to go around our galaxy one time. And earth has done it plenty of times while life goes on. Pretty crazy shit.

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Dicer214 t1_iudkxb8 wrote

Replying to LittleCorndawg2 (#345,042)

> 6500 years ago people were already using agriculture and shit.

But the earth is only 6000 years old?

Ha! I jest. Yeah it’s absolutely mental to think about how insignificant of a blip we are in comparison to the universe.

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Steve490 t1_iudo5g3 wrote

I love how more and more combo pics of the pillars keep coming out. Please keep adding more to the mix! I will keep saving them to my multiverse folder.

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