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Thanks for posting these links! It was frustrating that the main NASA PR pages linked photos that were 1280x720. I guess that's to protect their bandwidth costs

Thanks for posting these links! It was frustrating that the main NASA PR pages linked photos that were 1280x720. I guess that's to protect their bandwidth costs since much of the general public is probably viewing on mobile anyway and higher res would not only be slower but wasted bits. I just wish NASA had provided a link at the bottom of their low-res image pages to intermediate sized images (~4k) for desktop viewing.

coldpie 4y ago
I believe this page has what you want: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages Click on the image, twice, to get to a large-but-not-crazy resolution photo.
yread 4y ago
you can also download full res (even uncompressed) images from ESA site (they developed two of the IR instruments)
Wowfunhappy 4y ago
Not that I'm complaining since I hate jpeg compression, but you'd think that if they were concerned about bandwidth, they wouldn't use png...
epistasis 4y ago
Mobile is actually a great platform to get Hugh resolution, since you can zoom in really easily and navigate the full image. However, after spending 10 minutes on mobile this morning, I was unable to find any high resolution images, and many images had that anti-pattern of a BS HTML gallery that severely restricts interacting with the image.
- collaborative 4y ago
  Past a certain resolution, mobile devices automatically scale down images. This is hard to see in real-world images like pictures/galaxies. But try to open a really large image with some text in it and you will surely see how the text has turned blurry