Hubble Telescope Photos

i like to have HD pictures of galaxies and other things taken by the hubble space telescope that are on hubblesite.org the only thing is that in the bottom right corner with a label "Spiral Galaxy M101 HUBBLESITE.org" where can i get these photos without any labelings or watermarks on them? the ones on hubblesite are offered in different sizes (i used 1920x1200) http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/

Answer: I don't know if you'll get the same resolution you're expecting however....this site does give all kinds of Hubble photos and also photos from other various sources to enjoy. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

I write poetry and I would like to use some of Hubble's photos

Answer: Here's the official copyright information - http://www.stsci.edu/institute/Copyright

In the news they were showing photos from the hubble telescope of beautiful cosmic scenes and stars. A scientist explained what these stars were made of. And he said this is where humans got their beginning, we came from stars. Now did they change from saying we came from apes? I think it was the same guy who was saying their very close to finding out why we age and die. Well I'm a bible reader and don't need to waste my time trying to find an answer to that question. If they would pick up a bible they could save themselves plenty of time.

Answer: Interesting that people get all worked up and aim it at you, when you are merely relating what you heard in the news, asking for a take on it! There are many scientific explanations which are interesting. There are also a million theories. It can all be summed up by this simple scripture. This is a Psalm from David; I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, As my soul is very well aware. Ps. 139:14 and vs 16 Your eyes saw even the embryo of me A loving Creator made us and that is all we need to know. His name is Jehovah.

I saw a picture of deep space taken by the hubble telescope. Each speck of light in that photo represents a galaxy. And there are hundreds of them in that single picture and that picture isn't even a millionth of a fraction of the size of the universe. And in each of those galaxies are billions of stars each with planets revolving around them. I then read a article about how the universe might actually be inside another universe. My mind, incapable of understanding complex physics was perplexed and in awe of how big the world is. My life is so petty and insignificant in the face of time and space. Empires rise and fall on earth, stars are born and explode thousands of light years away. My lifespan of 80 or so years is so tiny. I am like bacteria on a giant toilet seat that spans thousands of miles. Even famous humans are forgotten in a culture that values petty gossip and consumerism. I doubt few people can name influential humans from the 1400s or even name their own districts assembly members or congressmen. If I kill myself, no one would care. Well, at least some friends and family, would care for a while. But that "while", would soon be forgotten like "tears in the rain". Damn I love blade runner. That movie made me feel small too but in a good way. Funny asking this on yahoo answers. Better than asking this on myspace, facebook, twitter, or whatever social networking sight that's gonna pop out someone's ass to waste my time. sorry I'm really good at typing or speaking coherently or even accurately. This is just at the top of my head after wasting time on the internet. Sorry I'm *not* really good at typing or speaking or expressing my self in a coherent and accurate way. @Ardi What is your interpretation of time and space then? Why do you choose to exist when your existence won't matter years later? I know time and space does not judge us. I don't really understand what I'm saying or you are saying. Maybe you can expand on your comment. It's like trying to build a pyramid that you are never going to see completed due to lack of resources. So what's the point? My joy comes from friends, family, and various inventions. I am glad I am born in this exact time period where internet and cable and knowledge is widely available yet I am also devastated by it. You say to enjoy life while I can. I remember a similar argument saying death should be embraced when one has lived a LONG AND FULFILLING LIFE. But a long and fulfulling life is subjective is it not? Some poor sap in a third world country being able to get clean water and food and die after the average death age of 40 might consider he lived a long and fulfilling life. Isn't that a pity though? What gives me the right to judge whether a life is full? See the problem I have is that my life is not long enough to experience everything in the world. To understand and to experience to most out of this world is another of my joys. So when you say time and space doesn't judge me, of course not. I am judging myself in the context of time and space. If that makes any sense I will laugh. Argh maybe I am psychotic, or a serial killer. (just kidding of course), Here's another argument that goes against my argument. If everybody thought the way I did, nothing would ever get done. A long and fulfilling life is subjective. A sad depressed sorry excuse for a bed stain like me would die unfulfilled and thus tragic my friend told me. Heartbroken I am. People live everyday experiencing mixed emotions. All those emotions and experiences become memories. Whether they realize they are small or not or just one of billions of humans struggling to live a happy life is not important. It is how they perceive their own life when the time comes. Fine I told me buddy. Still doesn't stop me from criticizing your meth addiction and dangerous sex life. (j/k). And so I happily moved on with life seeking to get laid(to no avail) and browse porn.

Answer: "Time and space" do not laugh at your puny size, or condemn you for it. Time and space have no perception of you. Man on the other hand is the only known species capable of contemplating time and space, and then castigating himself for his ability. Why do some, like you, do this?

K this seems super strange to me... The hubble space telescope takes pictures of galaxy's billlllllliions of light years away....they are clear sharp and crisp! My question is why the hell can't we take clear pictures in our own solar system? K maybe the telescope isn't designed for close photos....But! If we have the technology to see bbbbbbiillions of lightyears away we should have the technology for clear crisp photos that are merely in our own solar system.. Shouldn't we? BEEEEZAR! Tell me why!!??! Edit......My 2nd question tho....If we have optic capabilites of seeeeing THAT far and the hubble was built in the 70's....Shouldn't we have amazing optics now that could give amazing detail to closer objects like mars or any planet in our solar system for that matter.....Sigh this questions leads me to believe that this again is more suppressed technology and information....We are being spoon fed like a baby....

Answer: To put it simply, the images of other galaxies you see may look "crisp" but the smallest detail you can see is still of the order of light-years in size. Do you have any idea how big they are, and how far away? Take a photo of the outside of your house. If you "cropped and zoomed" in you won't be able to resolve an ant that you know is on the house. If you do the same to a telescopic photo of Mars, it would look clear from a distance but you wouldn't be able to see an individual boulder. You can zoom in on a photo of one of those galaxies, and you'd appear to be getting closer to the object. But you would not be able to continue doing so to the point where you can see an individual planet ot even star.

Why are photos and images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope clearer and more detailed than photos taken with larger, Earth-based telescopes?

Answer: A few years ago this question would have been correct for the very simple reason that in space the Earth's atmosphere is not present, and can therefore observe objects in space with no atmospheric disturbances. This was the original reason why space telescopes were built and placed into orbit. However in the past few years there have been telescopes designed on Earth that can actually resolve images even better than the Hubble. The reason for this is adaptive optics. Adaptive optics can filter out the disturbances an image has due to the atmosphere and show as if it were taken from space. Many telescopes on Earth can now resolve images better than the Hubble, and soon there will be one in place called the E-ELT, which will be able to observe galaxies from the furthest reaches of the universe.

That's what this guy says about the Hubble telescope when it took ultra deep field photos. Am I missing something or is that feasible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg

Answer: No the Hubble makes 163 orbits in 11 days. there are 1,440 minute in a day, so there are 15,840 minutes in 11 days. The Hubble makes a complete orbit every 97 minutes (I researched). 15,840/97= 163 Hubble make 163 orbits every 11 days so that 14 orbits a day. More than halfway around the Earth every hour! Hubble is moving 5 miles per second(8 km per second)

The hubble deep field picture shows over 3,000 galaxies. Let me break this down. Our galaxy has roughly 100,000,000+ stars. This means that there are roughly 300,000,000,000 stars contained in the hubble deep field photo. The photo covers in area of 2.5 arcminutes out of 1,000,000 arcminutes. So there are 300,000,000,000,000,000 stars within just the view of the hubble space telescope. This is equivilant to 3,000,000,000 galaxies Ok keeping in mind that this only includes that which we can see. Is it safe to say I don't have to listen to anyones ideas about whats really out there since you more than likley HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. My question IS "is it safe to say I don't have to listen to you on your religious/antireligious views because you have no idea what your talking about. If you have an answer I would love to hear it. So to reiterate we are the size of atoms compared to this universe The question again is why should I believe anything that comes from humans in regards to life on other planets, gods existance or what I should eat for breakfast?

Answer: The earth= a drop of water in the ocean The Ocean = the rest of the universe Only an imbecile atheist would say that something as complex and vast as the universe was created by accident

i aint no genius but i am struggling to grasp the fact that the hubble space telescope can take photo's from like back in time... i just read an article on yahoo... and it makes little sense to me.

Answer: Well you're looking back in time every time you look at the moon! Light from the moon takes 2.56 seconds to reach us so every time you look at it, that's how it looked like 2.56 seconds ago (not currently). The moon isn't even that far away either when you compare it to other things in the universe. So you can imagine how far back in time we are looking when we look through Hubble. Because Hubble can see so much into the distance, the images we are getting have taken many years to reach us, so we are actually seeing what happened many years ago. Light travels at 300,000 kilometres per second (186,000 miles per second). You can imagine how far light travels in one year then. Lots! That should give you an idea of how big the universe is when it could take 4.22 'light years' just to see the nearest star out of our solar system. Yep. The universe is pretty big lol!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100105/ap_on_sc/us_sci_hubble_photo - I dont see how this would be possible unless the picture is created ya know? Any insight would be helpful. :]

Answer: Light does not instantly get from where it started to where it's going. It goes very fast (almost 300,000,000 meters per second), but on the vast scale of the universe that's actually pretty slow. When you look at a star that's, say, ten light years away, you're actually looking at light that left the star ten years ago. In the meantime it may have exploded, but you wouldn't know until ten years after it happened. So, if the Hubble looks at a galaxy that's 13 billion (or so) light years away, it's looking at what that galaxy looked like when the universe was still young.