Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dark matter

Dark matter edit

A composite image of the galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the gravitational lensing effect of a dark matter ring-like structure.

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Reason: A beautiful composite image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, that indicates evidence for dark matter, when seen in hi-res many dozens of galaxies including spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way can be seen some 5 Billion light years away giving us an image older then the Earth.
Articles this image appears in: Dark matter, CL0024+17
Creator: NASA, ESA, M. J. Jee & H. Ford et al. (Johns Hopkins U.)

Support as nominator — ▪◦▪≡ЅiREX≡^Talk 10:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Breathtaking but a little fuzzy --St.daniel ^Talk 12:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Strong oppose~~. I would have uploaded and nommed this image myself, except that it ain't PD. The image is credited to NASA, ESA, M. J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University). Only images credited to the STSCI are PD, as mentioned in the copyright page. MER-C 12:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a PD image, [1] [2]. Other organizations my be contracted "or prepared for NASA under Contract NAS5-26555." - Chris H 15:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing like self-contradictory copyright info. Changed to tentative support, as we are able to argue it's PD. Meh. MER-C 08:57, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

oppose - I will support the original only, I uploaded it several days ago for the CL0024+17 article.Chris H 14:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And why is that? Anyways, each and every Telescope image we get to see here is postprocessed big time. Astronomers don't care about natural look, they want to enhance the details they are interested in. And in this case its the dark ring, which is completely invisible in the so called original. --Dschwen 17:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Sorry but the blue stuff is just a computer generated gravitational field that has been overlapped, that covers up the real visible light image.Chris H 18:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Oh... right... well... THEY SHOULD PUT THAT ON THE BOX! It should be clearly stated in the caption. Anyways, I think the composing adds to the enc value. --Dschwen 19:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 08:05, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]