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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That’s a small part of the entire actual image and you can see entire galaxies magnified through gravity lensing around a cluster that’s pretty cool

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How many NASA fanboys here read "ringmakers of Saturn"?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    no it didnt

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lmao@ Texas morons.
      The hubble and Webb projects cost well over 10 gorillion shillings

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they should have given these money to ukraine

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This was more expensive.
    Also: I have just ruined this thread lmao

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They'll use the telescope for thousands of other pictures dumbass.

      Taking that picture probably costed just a few millions. People in Hollywood are very good at that.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Movie budgets don't count THOUGH

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's even funnier when you know all these "photos" of the deep space are black and white and have no color and are not actually photos but a vague signal they get from a direction
    Then they are being colored by the NASA/ESA PR agency team on the ASSUMPTION that one specific object is of that color.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Still salty that you lost the space race?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No, just telling people how things actually work in the space industry.
        There are no photos of black holes and the colors of stars and planets are not real because all they see through the telescope is a 0.001x0.001 white pixel on the black background

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >When Hubble scientists take photos of space, they use filters to record specific wavelengths of light. Later, they add red, green, or blue to color the exposures taken through those filters. The result is full-color images that have a variety of purposes for scientific analysis.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >lost
        They were the first to space.
        Russia won the space race no matter how much the USA no achktually-ied the rules

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >I was leading for the first 90m of the 100m race so therefore I won
          have a nice day Black person

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      that's not how false color works

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's incorrect.
      The images are not in color but the way it is colorized is based in science and not arbitrary artistic choice.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >When Hubble scientists take photos of space, they use filters to record specific wavelengths of light. Later, they add red, green, or blue to color the exposures taken through those filters. The result is full-color images that have a variety of purposes for scientific analysis.

        deep matter my ass
        they dont know shit about what's going on outside of our own galaxy let alone the sheer number of different chemicals that can exist on other planets
        They are using the wavelength method which is based on the types of already known and proven theorems

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the way it is colorized is based in science
        Oh yes, the highly scientific science of astronomy, where they consider if some light blinks for a moment that means a planet passed in front of it

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          so what else, in your professional opinion, causes the periodic blinking of a star with the exact expected luminosity curve of a huge object passing in front of a star? is it just god twisting the dial on his DMX lighting controller?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >causes the periodic blinking of a star with the exact expected luminosity curve of a huge object passing in front of a star?

            >i expect x to have y effect
            >y effect happens
            >therefore x

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            it would appear to be the most reasonable guess as to what is going on. as you say, afaik it isn't an established fact yet, so you are welcome to make a reasonable guess.

            >what else, in your professional opinion, causes the periodic blinking of a star
            what causes a lamp to blink?

            >with the exact expected luminosity
            expect because of experiments? done here? in a lab? or because of the "standard model"?

            >what causes a lamp to blink?
            what does a lamp have to do with a star?

            >expect because of experiments? done here? in a lab?
            yeah because optics and geometry don't magically stop working at great distances

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >optics and geometry don't magically stop working at great distances
            They do if you assume the great distances are even the true distances to being with

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >what else, in your professional opinion, causes the periodic blinking of a star
            what causes a lamp to blink?

            >with the exact expected luminosity
            expect because of experiments? done here? in a lab? or because of the "standard model"?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >is it just god twisting the dial on his DMX lighting controller?
            Stars are considered fortresses of angels in Judaism, so it's probably just some of them sleeping or some regular scheduled maintenance of their lights

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      JWST is also infrared, so all the pictures are red in colour. All the "variety of colours" are just digitally manipulated into how scientists think they look.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The galaxies are all redshifted so it's a faithful representation if we were closer

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >faithful representation

          Like how NASA ups the saturation of how Mars "looks", making it x10 more red to appeal to normies?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            is that real mars or fake mars

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Real Mars. Real Mars has a dull, greyish red colour.

            In NASA photos, it's fricking blood red.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            where did you get your first pic then??? telescope?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            this is from NASA's website though

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Tge planet also changes color in seasons.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >posting a gamma-corrected image

            Real Mars. Real Mars has a dull, greyish red colour.

            In NASA photos, it's fricking blood red.

            that is not a nasa picture

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Real Mars. Real Mars has a dull, greyish red colour.

            In NASA photos, it's fricking blood red.

            There's a difference between telescopes in space and telescopes on earth. If you look up at the sky and see for yourself it's fricking red. I imagine that it may look a lot different from space compared to what it looks like through our atmosphere. The sun for instance is white in space rather than yellow or orange.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Whenever I looked at planets on mmy telescope they were black and white

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You are completely colorblind.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >The galaxies are all redshifted so it's a faithful representation if we were closer
          that isn't how light works you fricking moron

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That literally is how it works, mutt. Each colour has its own wavelength. If you’re light source is 100,000 light years away, you’re going to rely on infrared

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            no american is right that's not how light works

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They shift the wavelengths. Say you have infrared light from 1000 to 1500 nm. You can divide the wavelength by 2.5 and get a range of 400 to 600 nm. Which is in the visible range.

            The thing is it's kinda meaningless to talk about "real" colors. Our eyes would not even be able to see most of this shit because it's shifted so far into the infrared that it's outside the spectrum of visible light. And the rest is so dim that our eyes can't pick up enough light to make out details.

            If you could actually go in space and observe the brightest stuff it would mostly look like a fuzzy red/white haze. You wouldn't ever be able to actually see such details as you can from telescopes.

            The best way to get a good idea of this is to get a good pair of binoculars and go out on a very dark night and look for the Andromeda galaxy. It will appear as a very diffuse patch of white light.

            All the colors you see from telescope images do correspond to certain wavelengths though, so they are internally consistent and that's all that matters.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Each colour has its own wavelength

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      how do you think your brain perceives color, ivan

    • 2 years ago
      Autonomous

      Everyone disagree with you but not me, i believe you.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This. My gf works at ESA and when she told me that my entire perception of the space agencies and space exploration just shattered.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        your gf works at my wiener

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You have never touched a woman

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      moron

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      why did chuds become anprim cavemen as of late?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Russian flag.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Still salty that you lost the space race?

        how do you think your brain perceives color, ivan

        Does this thread come from pol or int?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Color
      Wavelength*
      of which only a tiny range can be perceived because our mortal cage's flawed design
      Even birds can see more

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this is only because human eyes are dogshit. you have to translate the incomprehensible radiations to something we can actually see. another animal with better eyes could probably just see the raw image in its totality

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No, just telling people how things actually work in the space industry.
      There are no photos of black holes and the colors of stars and planets are not real because all they see through the telescope is a 0.001x0.001 white pixel on the black background

      >When Hubble scientists take photos of space, they use filters to record specific wavelengths of light. Later, they add red, green, or blue to color the exposures taken through those filters. The result is full-color images that have a variety of purposes for scientific analysis.

      [...]
      deep matter my ass
      they dont know shit about what's going on outside of our own galaxy let alone the sheer number of different chemicals that can exist on other planets
      They are using the wavelength method which is based on the types of already known and proven theorems

      JWST is also infrared, so all the pictures are red in colour. All the "variety of colours" are just digitally manipulated into how scientists think they look.

      This image is fricking fake!
      The photographer just slapped together different B/W photos from different filters and digitally manipulated it to add color!!
      Fricking Photoshop we have no fricking idea if this man's coat should really be blue, brown, black or fricking green. It's all just lies to make LE PRETTY REDDIT PHOTO I fricking hate israelites.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >This image took $10,000,000,000 to create.
      Don't ever forget that, americans, when you're paying 6 dollars a gallon, or when you can't pay for you medical bills, or when you have to pay for you college loan, or you you're 1 week away from being physically removed from your home because you can't pay the mortgage or rent

      Engineers are the true heroes of science, the rest just uptakes a lot of money for either useless bullshit or to create more tools of enslavement to the State

      this, it's all jsut illustrations made with photoshop or some shit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the ASSUMPTION that one specific object is of that color
      infrared doesn't have a "colour", because it isn't visible to the naked eye, you fricking moron

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this guy is right, we should only put up "actual colour" cameras, with colours our actual *eyes* can see.
      pic related

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    fake, these are all made in paint, space exploration doesn't exist

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That light is coming from 600 million years after the Big Bang, it's very ancient

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      We have older images from older telescopes

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know too much space stuff but the wavelength is different too yeah?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, the red wavelength travels longer, so in essence the Webb telescope can see further off because of its longer wavelength

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    looks fake & gay.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Here is a picture of what you can see by using the Hubble and this picture has been 400% upscaled for the PR purposes
    In reality all they can see is a 700x400 pixel picture

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You can't see anything. It's just sensors and computers that create a picture which is then adapted to be seen by our eyes.
      The reds you see are probably infrared light, invisible to the naked eye.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If that’s the price it’ll cost for us to get in touch with aliens, then so be it.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i understand that they can take pictures of space, but what technology is the one that allows them to know what planets are made of? or those are all just assumptions.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Colour wavelengths and brightness on the image over a duration of time helps them understand gas compositions (if the colours shift). And I think brightness determines distance and other phenomena that happens that may distort light

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >gas compositions
        Earth based gas compositions
        nothing stops some unknown chemicals to exist in the space so these are just assumptions based on what we know about Earth only

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >nothing stops some unknown chemicals
          It's not about "chemicals", it's about the elements and we do quite literally know what all the elements are.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >we do quite literally know what all the elements are
            Elements of the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Earth (also a few comets and asteroids)
            We dont know shit about what elements the space has to offer

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            an atom with 6 protons and 6 electrons is going to be the same here, in a different planet, and in a different galaxy

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            This is a theory that only works in our environment. A theory just like all planets and large space objects in general do have a core.
            A theory is not a fact, especially when we use the scientific method

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Russians are seriously so god damned stupid

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            2+2 is 4. That is a fact based on math as we know it
            Planets having a core is a theory that is widely accepted by the scientists

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            but dude, what if the entire field of chemistry is invalid

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm not saying they are wrong or invalid. All I'm saying is one thing can work on Earth and work differently or simply not work somewhere else.
            They have theorised so much that they have to INVENT the dark matter because there was no other explanation for the objects moving differently other than an X fricking shit up when calculating things

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            This is the country that invented Lysenkoism and ended up starving to death because of it so it shouldn't be surprising.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            How does someone from a country that discovered like half the periodic table not understand how elements work.

            Russia-kun, what has happened?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >periodic table
            israeli lies. there are only 4 atoms: fire atoms, water atoms, earth atoms, wood atoms

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They had Mendeleev too

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            elements and chemicals are diffrent things
            there are thousands of chemicals made out of carbon and just because there's detectable wavelenght specific to carbon doesnt mean whole planet is made out of diamond

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            yes, to be more clear: 4 basic atoms bond together to form elements and elements interact with each other differently thus creating different chemicals. for example fire and earth combined creates an element called carbon and this carbon can create coal or gem both have %50 chance

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The dominant elements in space is hydrogen I believe.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >This image took $10,000,000,000 to create.
    And it's worth every of the first 50 pennies.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    nooo you can't invest in space research, that money could've been spent on corporate welfare instead

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >you don't get it, we need pictures of objects that are X billion years of age that may already be gone because...because we do ok?

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The problem with science is that is way too complex so morons like you don't understand it

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i could have spent that money on so many prostitutes

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the jwst deep field pic took 12 hours of exposure to capture, it took the hubble 2 week to do the same and with a fraction of the quality.

    every scientific/academic institution in NA, EU, Japan & Aus is willing to suck dick to get access to it. they will be able to do more science in a few hours than they have in an entire century.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    tell me about space
    why does it make everyone seethe

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    webb mogged hubble fr

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The brightest minds of IQfy have assembled ITT. Defund NASA, fund this thread.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    space is scary

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    frick the cosmos, I hate space

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      polen can't into space

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >"scientists" draw a picture in photoshop
    >idiots lap it up thinking we live in a black soup with lightbulbs

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >> idiots thinking we live in a black soup with lightbulbs

      I mean, we do live in the void of black space with only the Suns/stars as our primary light source

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You sound israeli

      Back to Pakistan you moron

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >NOOOO NOT MY HECKIN SCIENCERINO

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I will stomp your skull into paste you brown moron

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I will stomp your skull into paste you brown moron

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >this thread

    Do you guys think maybe you've taken this
    >OH MY GOD I HECKIN' LOVE SCIENCE
    meme a bit too serious?

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I enhanced them even more.

    What do I win?

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's amazing
    There's so much fricking space out there, just like you could go on an imaginary spacecraft travelling at the speed of light and yet you'd get nowhere, there'd still be so much FRICKING SPACE
    And stars
    Christ Almighty

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      woah.... space ...... .is //.... big ??????

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Space is le big and it's le good but unironically

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's mostly empty, and anything/anyone of interest is too far away for us to get to anyway.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Aye but we can see the good bits

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah it's fricking huge man
        I hardly ever think about it but it's just baffling how large the universe is, even our galaxy is unimaginably huge and yet when we see this image we see hundreds possibly a thousand galaxies in a tiny part of the night sky, just everywhere
        So many fricking galaxies, so many stars
        So much distance
        Don't you ever think about it?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Space is fake. The Earth is the biggest thing out there, and don't you forget it.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >born in unimaginably large universe
    >stuck on the same planet with brown people

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Money well spent

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good. I'm going to save it and throw it into the trash.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >DUDE LOOK BLACKNESS WITH SOME LIGHTS THAT'S HECKIN EPIC BRO!!!!
    >I FRICKING LOVE SCIENCE!!!
    why do I care again?
    Space doesn't have lemurs, giraffes, the Amazon rainforest, the Colosseum, the Pyramids of Giza, the Grand Canyon and kangaroos.
    Space has boring, featureless rocks and balls of fire. Both of which I can find on Earth anyways.
    FYI there are no aliens either.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >why do I care again?
    >Space doesn't have lemurs, giraffes, the Amazon rainforest, the Colosseum, the Pyramids of Giza, the Grand Canyon and kangaroos.
    >Space has boring, featureless rocks and balls of fire. Both of which I can find on Earth anyways.
    >FYI there are no aliens either.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There are likely aliens in this photograph.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      no there aren't you idiot
      those are some of the earliest galaxies, life almost definitely did not yet have enough time to develop by then

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You seem a little nervous, my friend. Is there anything you'd like to tell us?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Entire species with their own wars and hippies. Boomers and zoomers. Fricking shit ass pets who piss on everything.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If they're just like us but look like disgusting freakish creatures I don't want to know about it. Somewhere out there is a planet of sexy alien babes...

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          what if we are the ugly bastard race of aliens

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You monkey bastards deserve genocide.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >you m-SLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
            huh?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I was thinking a few days ago about how bizarre it is that we just have hair growing on our face

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      there are likely aliens in your neighborhood

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Here the high res image :
    > https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7JJADTH90FR98AKKJFKSS0B.png
    I love science so much it's unreal

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Suspicious anon, I'm not clicking on that link

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      me on the right

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >an holofoil pokemon card template
    damn

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Producing pretty pictures to post on your wall is not the purpose of looking into space.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Do galaxies actually have different colours like that?

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw it stares back at you

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Yes, obviously.
    It depends on the preponderance of star types within it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Do galaxies actually have different colours like that?

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Stupid fricking homosexual janny.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    10 billion for what? the telescope?

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    IQfy is too dumb for IQfy

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >This image took $10,000,000,000 to create.
    t. doesn't understand fixed and variable costs

    take 10,000,000,000 images and they only cost $1 a pop.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Hell, by the time they take the second picture, the price will already have dropped in half!

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Meanwhile, billions are starving on Earth. The scientific community will get the bullet too when the proletarian will overthrow fascism.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      riight, the $1.7/year you had to pay is why billions are starving
      moron

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why do so many people think that the purpose of the telescope was to take one picture then shut down?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You wouldn't understand.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It ran out of film already

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Redirecting money from social media and entertainment companies via tax to stem grads is frickin great. I hope the next project costs triple.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Crazy how so many of those galaxies look like they're some kind of vortex, huh. It's almost as if space itself is a fluid and matter just gathers itself where there are pressure differentials, and not the other way round.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's a fricking cat

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >take 4 more images
    >80% price drop

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So where are the fricking planets? I can just download pictures like this from /wg/ I want to see real planets.

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    uhhh....

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the universe is really fascinating

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >hurr the squiggly line means its this chemical beacuse I say it is OK TRUST THE SCIENCE

    NASA is a fricking JOKE

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