Hubble XDF (Extreme Deep Field)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Oct 2012 at 06:46:47 (UTC)

Reason

A breathtaking view of some of the oldest galaxies in the Universe. Good quality and difficult to recreate.

Articles in which this image appears

Hubble Extreme Deep Field, Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, Astronomy

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch, University of California, Santa Cruz; R. Bouwens, Leiden University; and the HUDF09 Team

• Support as nominator -- EngineerFromVega ^★ 06:46, 15 October 2012 (UTC) reply
• Support A very important image scientifically, a true accomplishment. —  raeky t 20:35, 15 October 2012 (UTC) reply
• Why not convert this to JPEG or at least PNG? Having articles link to TIFs, which require an external viewer, is not very reader-friendly. Chick Bowen 23:25, 15 October 2012 (UTC) reply
  • There's no policy reason why you'd need to use one format over another. —  raeky t 01:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC) reply
  • I've uploaded a PNG version as an alternative. Please take a look. I've used OS X Preview app to convert from TIFF to PNG. EngineerFromVega ^★ 04:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC) reply
  • One thing you need to know about formats, since you suggested JPEG, is that TIFF and PNG are lossless formats, whereas JPEG is lossy, you'd NEVER want to prefer a JPEG over a TIFF/PNG. Secondly for publishing TIFF would be preferred format. —  raeky t 15:08, 16 October 2012 (UTC) reply
• Support: A remarkable shot - a technical accomplishment in itself - and of great scientific importance and much public interest (its release saw it featured on the front pages of many media). Plutonium27 ( talk) 23:52, 16 October 2012 (UTC) reply

Re format - pref. alt version. The most important thing is quality and I cannot see a difference in the two versions here. TIF has its advantages but the opening external viewer requirement is a bit of a pain. Plutonium27 ( talk) 00:03, 17 October 2012 (UTC) reply

• Support Woooooo! Aaadddaaammm ( talk) 18:58, 19 October 2012 (UTC) reply
• Support Pine ^✉ 01:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Hubble Extreme Deep Field (full resolution).png -- Julia\ ^talk 05:23, 28 October 2012 (UTC) reply