Take a gander at this.. Talk about some awesome pictures.. But darn it, i cannot steal them and save them on my system!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6955261/?GT1=9033

PLUS ! theres a whole list below theses pics of even more pics.. Way cool shots here!

Bloody hell! Some immensely impressive shots. There must be an equivalent to it somewhere, where you can download it...I'll take a look for you

seems like shockwave flash.
well, there's always good old printkey2000. makes you screenshots of it if you press "print" fast enough.

And you should be able to do that no problem on the slideshow

Nice shots

There is indeed a few NASA sites where you can grab the original .tiff files; I've got a 130mb .tiff for example I grabbed; it was taken from that most recent probe that arrived at Mars, can see Opportunity parked next to a crater in it.. can even make out its shadow! From orbit.

Each little agency within NASA hordes its goodies in different places on occasion, which makes it difficult, but..

A lot can be dug up through this:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

That first nebula in the slide show is in there; 45mb full-res.

Other sites, like this one, can let you dig up more peculiar (though usually less interesting) pictures.. Like whatever happens to be in Spirits rear-view mirror at the moment.

http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/

Hubble's is better than the rovers, IMHO, 'cause you can get both a simple explination plus a much more technical summary of what the picture is in some of them.

http://hubblesite.org/

Here is Spitzers

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/me ... ndex.shtml

I had links to those, and more, except for Spitzer, but I found Spitzer super-easy with Google. Some of these images wouldn't fit on a 30" Dell widescreen without resizing, so hopefully they fill you guys up.

Happy astro-porn.

Edit: Typical government, lol, I found that 'Eye of God' picture four different places, and each claimed that their 'highest resolution' copy was the highest quality version available -- yet all four had significantly different file sizes, ranging from 11 to 45mb. If you really want the highest-quality version available (like me, I tend to make desktop backgrounds out of them), looking around might net better results.

Those look amazing!

Happy Astro - Porn???? whoa! lol

Just case we like to do some start gazing.. lol Now the Feds are gonna come take my computers as evidence. I can see the court case now.

but your honor, i was just looking at the pictures, and I even read the articles! LMAO!

But those were some cool shots ! and Thanks Ringold for those other links as well. I'll be devling into them for sure.

I just was trying to get a glimpse of the event horizon, I swear!