Stars, Planets & Galaxies: Hubble Telescope Pictures from Outer Space

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This is a mind-blowing collection of NASA Hubble space telescope photography, complete with almost 4 Gigabytes of amazing high resolution pictures, images and photos. See our galaxy and stars as you never have before, preserved in their original high resolution .TIFF image format. These images are fine in detail and hold up to scrupulous examination and manipulation on your computer or preferred image viewer. These are high quality NASA Hubble telescope pictures, which will hold up upon enlargement. Lose yourself in all the galaxies of the universe, full of ambiguous, beautiful entities and photos of stars that are simply out of this world ... literally. This is the only Hubble space telescope images and pictures collection like this, kept in high resolution format and shipped to your door for reasonable prices. Here's your chance to see 450 high detail Hubble pics! If you love the telescope, the study of astronomy, awesome looking stars and NASA space pictures, photos and images, you will fall in love with this compilation. This collection has been carefully assembled to contain the most exquisite and highest quality pictures possible. Item Description: * Included in the following 6 volumes are pictures of: Galaxies, Stars, Planets, Comets, Black Holes, Moons, and so much more!!!! * Over 450 pictures and 3.7 gigs of images...that's over 6 CD's full and continues to grow everyday * This collection of pictures is the largest hi-resolution anthology of astronomy photos on the Web. The volumes are organized by file size * 166 smaller JPEG's and TIFF's * 201 TIFF's 1M-9.9M * 93 TIFF's 10M or larger * These Pictures were created by NASA. They may not be used for endorsement as regulated by NASA copyright laws.

Probably a rip-off. Not good, anyway - Georgeous to Garish and 100% unannotated!!
This is one EXTREMELY mixed bag! Don't believe the hype. Of 461 images, the large majority TIFF format, I saved to my HD only 86. That's right, only 86 impressed me as worth viewing more than once.

I think this set was put ("cobbled") together by some amateur who simply downloaded a bunch of Hubble photos, put them together, made up a business name for themselves and put them out on Amazon. Hubble images, for the most part, are copyright free. So I guess anyone can piece together a DVD or bunch of CDs like this.

The set might be a lot more interesting if one only knew what the pictures were supposed to be or to represent. But no! Believe it or not, there's not one single word of text anywhere on the DVD or CDs that names what's in the pictures or explains anything at all.

A sample, totally typical title is this one:

1990-07-a-full_tif.tif

That's exactly like ALL the titles. No explanation where to go to get more info.

If you own a copy of DK's 2005 truly beautiful "Universe: the Definitive Visiual Guide", which is HIGHLY educational and full of explanations, you can ID a fair number of the 86 images I thought worthy. Otherwise, you'd not have a single clue what you were looking at!

There are a ton of boring images and small, grainy images, and beautiful fine images and ones so big that I STILL have not opened them for a view (one set of four range up to 240 MB or so).

A real hodge-podge. Unbelievably uneven.

If you are hard-core, like I sort of am, then this DVD is almost worth getting. But it's only value is to provide you with maybe 60-90 nice to very nice images in a format that you can use for display or printing or sharing or etc.? That's worth something, for sure. But really, who pieced together this mess?