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File:Casa print4.jpg
Original - Three color X-ray image of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, the rightest astronomical radio source in the sky, taken at the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
File:Casa print4(crop).jpg
Alt. 1 Cropped out words.
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Alt. 2 Cloned out words.
Reason
High quality image of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant.
Articles this image appears in
Cassiopeia A
Creator
Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA
In other words, it's upsampled. MER-C 06:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, if this is state of the art, this is state of the art. I think that's an obvious exception to the "sufficiently high resolution" criteria. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 07:56, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would have to agree. I also think that that the upsampling was done well enough that it is better to have this upsampled version than a lower resolution image, as we can do more with it. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 00:48, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's only state of the art for X-ray imaging. The image File:Cassiopeia A Spitzer.jpg, for example, combines X-ray and infrared data with a high-resolution Hubble image. It's not as shocking, but it shows more detail. Wronkiew (talk) 06:16, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 02:45, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]