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Full image http://www.cielaustral.com/galerie/photo95.htm?fbclid=IwAR3G.... (Linked in article) Really incredible.

Nice annotated map on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud#/media/...

Magnificent! Congrats to Ciel Austral. We live in a New Golden Age in astrophysics and astronomy. With M87 black hole, TESS exoplanet catalog, Charon flyby, LIGO-Virgo, etc. ;)

“In an eternally inflating universe, anything that can happen will happen; in fact, it will happen an infinite number of times. Thus, the question of what is possible becomes trivial—anything is possible […] The fraction of universes with any particular property is therefore equal to infinity divided by infinity—a meaningless ratio.” -Alan Guth

http://physics.princeton.edu/~cosmo/sciam/

Sometimes I envy what appear to be more interesting parts of the universe.

That image evokes all those feelings.

Then I remember interesting probably = bad, and we may not be living to appreciate it all.

If you actually lived there it would probably just seem like a lot of uninteresting empty space. It only looks interesting because what you're looking at is far beyond huge, all squashed together into one picture.

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

Peanuts are a gross underestimation. More like a quark or a Planck length.

Well, I think you could live a whole life on this planet without seeing the same place twice. If you think you have seen it all, you probably didn't look close enough.

I mean, you can see every place on this planet within a few seconds if you are taking a look at some satellite photo and yet you would not have seen your house and the living beings around it. Similarly, there are many more details which we do not perceive in our everyday life and which you can explore without have to invent a couple of scientific miracles ;-)

It is not that I don't value the stars. It is just that I think we shouldn't dream of arriving at some wonderful planet one day when we already are on a wonderful planet. We just don't appreciate it like that.

Oh, I think we should dream of all of it. One does not diminish the other.

We do live in an amazing place.

If you're thinking of the LMC as an "intersting place", you're committing a pretty huge error of scale.

The really mind bending part of that is on a galactic scale the LMC is "close". :)

I'll bite. Why is LMC less interesting than other stuff? What's more interesting in your opinion?

I think OP means that LMS isn't a place per-se (like a planet, or maybe even a solar system is a "place"). It's a whole bunch a places bound together by gravity.

Even so. if you happened to live there you'd get a view of all those nebulae, and the Milky Way in the distance.

You might need eyes the size of a satellite dish to see them all though.

We can see all that from here though.

A solar system is a whole bunch of places bound together by gravity, too. What's the fundamental distinction here? That the center of mass isn't approximately one massive thing (e.g. the solar system is 99% the center -- the sun)?

That's right.

In a very shallow, simplistic sense, we see all these other amazing phenomena out there. Our home seems like a little rural backwater, crossroads and a store kind of thing, by comparison.

Exactly

For anyone with a shitty computer like me, zooming into that is currently crashing my browser ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm sure someone will be able to put this into a Google Maps style viewer pretty quickly to err, not crash your browser as quickly.

https://www.easyzoom.com/imageaccess/52544f0c7c034d008dfbde3...

https://scope.avocco.com/case/20/eWKcUiIXpuQU9V0z

It's an 80mb JPEG. It worked on my PC with Chrome but I have 8gb RAM. Try using Ifranview I heard that's good.

I have random freezes. Firefox can't handle 200 MP, I guess

Works just fine for me. Loads in 2 seconds, zooms instantly. Maybe something wrong with your computer or Internet?

My first guess, not enough ram.

No problem with Firefox (66.0.3) here. Zooming into the image makes my FF use about an additional 1G of ram.

works fine on my 4yo desktop, so I checked it on my 2010 laptop. The webprocess on the laptop is using 1 gig RES ram, but it's not 2004 any more.

I opened the full image (14400x14200), which took a good minute to load, and spent some time just looking at every single dot in that picture, which there is a lot of.

Memories of Netscape, on dial up, waiting for the picture to load, but now the detail and resolution is so incredible. It's a great way to start a Monday!

I opened it in Chrome 73 & Preview on MacOS to see memory consumption on Activity Monitor.

When the full image was loaded up in Chrome, Chrome Helper showed up with ~1.30GB of memory consumption; it sometimes went up to 5.60 GB on repeated tests and quickly reverted to ~ 1.30 GB on average.

Preview consumed ~550MB at the beginning and further zooming /zooming out consumed ~250 MB at average.

Chrome, struggled a bit after clicking on Zoom. Preview gave a low resolution image when Zoom was clicked and then gave the original resolution. Preview's user experience was comparatively better.

Intel power gadget showed CPU spikes during these actions, but nominal GPU spikes; I don't think metal is being used in preview.

Edit : RAM : 32GB, Core i5 7th Gen

took about 22 seconds for me, but seemed to stall for about 5 seconds in the middle of loading :-P

Took 6 seconds with Internet Download Manager. By the time I fired up ACDSee, the file was there (running win8.1 on SSD)

do you have a HDD? perhaps that's memory to disk caching. I have ZERO clue, just guessing.

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