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James Webb image of the Carina Nebula

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Original – This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.
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High-quality, high-resolution public domain photo showing one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced
Articles in which this image appears
James Webb Space Telescope, Carina Nebula
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out#Nebulae, stars, supernovae and the Milky Way
Creator
NASA
No problem, it's not the first big image we've had on Commons. I've now cut the image in half and both sections are avaliable on Commons: 1 and 2. This is how we usually deal with very large files of detailed photos. cart-Talk 17:00, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
How can we merge them for this featured image candidate? Ddevault (talk) 17:09, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, you can close/withdraw this nom and nominate the photos as a set (like this one), and displaying them side by side just takes a bit of coding. Here is one way of doing it. (Open in editing window to see the code) cart-Talk 17:59, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that's better. Users are going to want to click through to see a larger version, and not in two different browser tabs, and at the thumbnail size there's no advantage to the split method. I think the better approach is to simply let users who want the huge version click through to the NASA source from the image page. Ddevault (talk) 18:03, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Update: I found the full-size version here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STScI-01G7ETNMR8CBHQQ64R4CVA1E6T.tif
I put in a request to have it moved to the other page. Ddevault (talk) 18:10, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Great! Someone found a way to upload the big file. Go with that. cart-Talk 18:20, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, someone updated the original URL as well. So it's all good :) Thanks! Ddevault (talk) 18:27, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've moved the tiff for you and added the correct info to the page. Good luck! cart-Talk 18:33, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The secret is to use chunked uploads, which ups and file size to a Gigabyte or so. See commons:User:Rillke/MwJSBot. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8% of all FPs 20:43, 13 July 2022 (UTC)js[reply]
  • Yann, did you really confer with the nominator, Ddevault, before changing the format? See above comment. FYI to all parties here, Yann has nominated the jpeg version for FP on Commons. Often the same version is FP across wiki-projects. It would be great if we could agree on one and the same version of this image. On Commons there are FPs in all formats, jpeg, png, even tifs. --cart-Talk 14:09, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    PNGs have a display bug that the Wikipedia coders have no desire to fix. Basically, they aren't sharpened. Apparently, this is a good thing because it can be used for specific use cases, which hardly justifies breaking an entire class of files. Also, yeah, Support JPEG. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8% of all FPs 03:43, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    The thumbnail is not ideal, but for those who want to click through to the full quality it would be a travesty if they got a lossy JPEG version. Ddevault (talk) 09:45, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    There are thumbnails and links to the other versions of the image on the jpeg's file page, as well as the others. Such crosslinks should always be present on well-maintained (and especially FP) pages. That way the image looks good at thumb and those interested in exploring it, can check out the desired version. cart-Talk 10:17, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, fair enough. I agree that the thumbnail quality is better and so long as all of the cross-links are in place I suppose it's fine. I put the JPEG version back. Ddevault (talk) 07:25, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:NASA’s Webb Reveals Cosmic Cliffs, Glittering Landscape of Star Birth.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:09, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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