The first images from the Advanced Camera for Surveys

April 30, 2002 12:06 PM

The first images from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope have been unveiled.
posted by homunculus (10 comments total)

Ahh, I wondered why the site had gone down. Everyone's grabbing themselves a new desktop...;)
posted by inpHilltr8r at 12:07 PM on April 30, 2002

A benevolent slashdotter mirrored the new pics. Unfortunately they're low res jpegs. Hopefully we'll be able to get the real deal soon...
posted by badstone at 12:26 PM on April 30, 2002

Stunning.
posted by donkeyschlong at 12:39 PM on April 30, 2002

new images of where i want to live.... thats got to be a new wallpaper for me then!!! - quality link noice won!!!
posted by monkeyJuice at 12:45 PM on April 30, 2002

Great stuff - thanks homunculus.
posted by holycola at 1:05 PM on April 30, 2002

Wow...those are amazing pictures.
posted by SisterHavana at 1:06 PM on April 30, 2002

There's only so much cosmic beauty I can take.

Every time I look up at the nighttime sky, I feel both invited and chided by God.

Great link. Thanks.
posted by WolfDaddy at 3:19 PM on April 30, 2002

"Krepron-9, you've done it again. Those paintings of yours you keep holding up to that silly earth-telescope have fooled the silly two-legged O-2 breathers yet again. Slap tentacles with me, man!"

Take it to PanGalaticGargleTalk...
posted by owillis at 3:24 PM on April 30, 2002

ah - you can get full res pics here, but the server's pretty hit right now...
posted by badstone at 4:29 PM on April 30, 2002

Beautiful. The full-res version of the 'pinwheel firework' galaxy is my new wallpaper, suitably cropped.
posted by darukaru at 8:06 PM on April 30, 2002