Two days ago, NASA released a Hubble Space Telescope of Messier 81, also known as Bode’s Galaxy. The image has a resolution of 22,620 x 15,200, which is over 343 million pixels. I noted, as a point of comparison, that the Texas Advanced Computing Center has a tiled display that is 307 million pixels. Dr. Bill Barth, the director of HPC at TACC, commented on the article and placed links to Hubble images being shown on their tiled display. Below you can see in the first picture, an image of Messier 81 being shown on that display. Now that is a beautiful sight, even with the center monitor being nearly all white.

The second image shows the Carina Nebula, where new stars are being born. The Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, is an Emission Nebula in the Milky Way. This nebula is four times larger than the Orion nebula. However, it is found in the night skies of the southern hemisphere. The image was taken by the Hubble space telescope, and combined with data taken from ground based observations. The image is slightly larger at 29,566 X 14,321, or about 423 million pixels.

Click on the images below to see a larger version in all its glory. We would like to thank Dr. Bill Barth and TACC for these wonderful images.

TACC’s tiled display consists of a 15×5 array of Dell 30-inch widescreen LCD monitors. For more information, your can visit their website at TACC Visualization Resources.

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