<story><title>NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-takes-star-filled-portrait-of-pillars-of-creation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvasdekis</author><text>I compressed the full PNG via Guetzli (Google&amp;#x27;s high-quality jpg compressor) which took a couple of hours (now 15MB at 84% quality), so here it is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dvasdekis&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;raw&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;pillars.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dvasdekis&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;raw&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;pillars.jpg&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mega.nz&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;BTdWSb6b#NHK9lAtGMIr1UxabLiC174ZvJWo7KSMPVvU32XuhOuw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mega.nz&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;BTdWSb6b#NHK9lAtGMIr1UxabLiC174ZvJWo7KS...&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mediafire.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;n0qjxogsp203z0w&amp;#x2F;pillars.jpg&amp;#x2F;file&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mediafire.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;n0qjxogsp203z0w&amp;#x2F;pillars.jpg&amp;#x2F;f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original crashed Windows when set as desktop background, but this one works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tepix</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The original crashed Windows when set as desktop background, but this one works.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s better to scale it down to the display resolution instead if that&amp;#x27;s what you want to use it for.</text></comment>
<story><title>NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-takes-star-filled-portrait-of-pillars-of-creation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvasdekis</author><text>I compressed the full PNG via Guetzli (Google&amp;#x27;s high-quality jpg compressor) which took a couple of hours (now 15MB at 84% quality), so here it is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dvasdekis&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;raw&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;pillars.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dvasdekis&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;raw&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;pillars.jpg&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mega.nz&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;BTdWSb6b#NHK9lAtGMIr1UxabLiC174ZvJWo7KSMPVvU32XuhOuw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mega.nz&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;BTdWSb6b#NHK9lAtGMIr1UxabLiC174ZvJWo7KS...&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mediafire.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;n0qjxogsp203z0w&amp;#x2F;pillars.jpg&amp;#x2F;file&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mediafire.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;n0qjxogsp203z0w&amp;#x2F;pillars.jpg&amp;#x2F;f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original crashed Windows when set as desktop background, but this one works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlindner</author><text>That image has some amount of artifacting around all the stars so I wouldn&amp;#x27;t advise you to use it. You&amp;#x27;ll get a lot more quality out of the image just downrezzing and then saving it with a higher jpeg quality setting.&lt;p&gt;Also I&amp;#x27;m not sure why Google would take hours to find a jpeg quality setting. That&amp;#x27;s a really trivial thing and should only take seconds on a desktop with something like imagemagick.&lt;p&gt;If you have a faster machine it works no problem to just view it directly: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stsci-opo.org&amp;#x2F;STScI-01GFNMZESKZKXBMWGER9E0Z19G.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stsci-opo.org&amp;#x2F;STScI-01GFNMZESKZKXBMWGER9E0Z19G.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downloaded in less than 30 seconds and firefox handled viewing&amp;#x2F;panning&amp;#x2F;scaling it without issue. On an M1 Macbook Air.</text></comment>