Hey setizens! I made this for you:

main:http://home.exetel.com.au/bmgoau/space/008_1561b2.html

Mirror 1: http://home.exetel.com.au.nyud.net/b...08_1561b2.html
Mirror 2: http://www.bmgoau.byethost6.com/008_1561b2.html
Mirror 3: http://urlmasher.com/space/008_1561b2.html
Mirror 4: http://1f702f.tempopage.com/space/008_1561b2.html
Orion Mirror 1: http://1f702f.tempopage.com/space/008_1211.html

i/o, +/- or scroll wheel, right click to zoom
arrow keys, w,a,s,d or mouse drag to move around

orion nebula here... http://home.exetel.com.au/bmgoau/space/008_1211.html

You may have seen the hubble ultra deep field photo before, its a photo of a clear patch of sky that shows over 10,000 galaxies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field It is often called the most important image ever taken because it allowed scientists to estimate that there are over a 100 billion to 1 trillion galaxies in the universe.
However you probably haven't seen this one before.
It is perhaps a hundred times larger (and more impressive) then the HUDF and thus not widely circulated. I spent today making a composite using the same technique as google earth, so you can view it in your browser quickly and using little bandwidth.
Every point of light in the image is an entire galaxy with billions of stars like our own.
I also made a composite of the orion nebula, because it looks pretty awesome too.

Let me know what you think. PS. If you can help me identify the images origins that would be wonderful.

Also check out this wonderful short video narrated by Morgan Freeman http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5199883515356655043

Orion Nebula Static Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Orion_Nebula_-_Hubble_2006_mosaic_18000.jpg
Created with the the google code project open-zoom http://code.google.com/p/open-zoom/
Torrent for complete image (its from NASA so its public domain see here http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html) (help me seed) http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5054045 If a mod wants to remove the torrent link, please do so, but dont delete the rest of the post.

BMgoau,
That is pretty cool, that open-zoom is a cool way to view images. Well done, i love it :)

John.

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That Orion image certainly has an interesting little "some-thing" in it.
Have a zoom-look within the whiter coloured centre of the image.

It doesn't show up on other images so its not a faulty pixel set.

Download the original to get a better look and larger magnification. Use a good imaging tool to change light filtering, saturation etc.