Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/M82 set

M82 galaxy set

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Feb 2012 at 10:34:43 (UTC)

Original – Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034, Cigar Galaxy or NM82) is the prototype nearby starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The starburst galaxy is five times as bright as the whole Milky Way and one hundred times as bright as our galaxy's center. This image is shown in invisible infrared and X-ray spectrums: Spitzer photographed it in infrared, which shows dust emission, and Chandra photographed it in X-ray (showing mostly synchrotron emissions from fast electrons). The X-ray emission is shown in the blue parts.(from article)

ALT – This mosaic image is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82.

Reason: Both are of high quality and very striking. The previous nomination was... well, it needs to be read to be understood. Suffice it to say I think a set nomination would work better, although I prefer the true colour image if we must pick only one. This nomination was made after a comment by Extra on my talk page.
Articles in which this image appears: Both together on Messier 82. Individually on another 7 articles.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator: NASA

Support both as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:34, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support as sub-nominator really striking --Extra 999 (Contact ^me) 10:41, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support the alt, as that's the one that is the lead image, and has been for some time. However, nominating the images together was perhaps not the best idea- it was that which led to the clusterfuck last time. J Milburn (talk) 19:15, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the old nom was a little FUBAR... I like both. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:20, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Call me ignorant, but in the grand scheme of things this is just another pretty NASA shot like many others we have seen on this page. I'd rather see something new and unique getting the FP badge here. --Dschwen 15:40, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pardon? But how else would one represent this galaxy? Would you oppose all bird pictures because "we have enough birds"? Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:34, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Really, you won't get across such space pics of such quality anywhere, as you seemed to take it. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me) 09:32, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
There is certainly an issue here, but the answer would be to encourage alternative kinds of images, not hold back the usual. If it was found, for comparison, that proportionally far fewer women were getting into universities, I'm sure plenty of people would support measures to support and encourage women who are applying; I doubt many would support turning down men who would otherwise have been offered a place. J Milburn (talk) 16:55, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually that is exactly what is happening on the job market, if certain quotas have to be met. --Dschwen 23:15, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But there is no limit to the no of FPs we can have --Muhammad(talk) 16:05, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quite; that's why I thought that university admissions was a more apt comparison than jobs. J Milburn (talk) 23:53, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dschwen's opposition is poorly informed. Just because objects are in space does not mean they have EV for the same reason. The only FPs that have marginally overlapping EV with this image are the 10-odd galaxy pictures. However, none of these illustrates a starburst galaxy (except the obviously anomalous Antenna galaxies). M82's status as the prototype for this important galaxy class gives it strong and unique EV. As Crisco says, Dschwen is equating eagles and ostriches. Fallingmasonry (talk) 18:17, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support It should be made more prominent in the caption the bits of the spectrum that these images are from though. JJ Harrison (talk) 09:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt, Neutral on Original ~~(why are they both labeled "Original"?)~~ For the 1st image, I think the EV would be better if the IR and XRay images weren't composited, but presented as a pair. Fallingmasonry (talk) 18:00, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Changed Original (#2) to ALT Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:40, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:M82 HST ACS 2006-14-a-large web.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 11:56, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Only "alt" had enough support. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 11:56, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]