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HUBBLE SPACE PICTURES The Hubble space telescope is over 10 years old and is still producing remarkable images of space. This month PC World is including some of the more recent and spectacular images. Pictures are Courtesy of NASA and AURA/STScI . Please be aware that images from the Hubble library have varying degrees of copyright. Some are public domain, while others will require permission from the authors. See the licence text (licence.txt) in the d:/hubble folder for more details. Viewing the images The images in this collection are in JPG format which can be viewed in most Web browsers. They can be found in the d:/space/hubble folder of this CD, where d is your CD-ROM drive. Alternatively, many graphics programs allow you to sort files and browse thumb nail images (smaller images that use less resources). Examples include Paint Shop Pro and IrfanView (see the Essentials section of CD 1). IrfanView is a free program which also has basic editing and batch conversion features. However if you paste the JPG images into other documents such as Microsoft Word, the files will be converted to a less efficient Bitmap format which will require greater resources to store. For example, the file 'A Cosmic Searchlight - 0020y.jpg' is 400KB, but when converted to a bitmap, it is over 20MB. You may want to reduce their size if you are using the images for your desktop or screensaver. More information about the pictures The Hubble site has more details about each picture. The filename of each image has the keywords used by the Hubble site to describe the picture. Simply type these words into the search box and you should be able to find more information about it. Questions and Feedback If you have questions about these pictures, including copyright then visit the Hubble Web site http://hubble.stsci.edu. Suggestions or feedback about this PC World collection can be sent by clicking on the 'Suggest a file' link at the top of the right column. |
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