Here are some of my personal favourite wallpapers for your desktop (and iPhone). Sizes 1900×1200, 1024×768, 1280×800 and 800×600 are all here to fill your eyes with spacey goodness. Let your own scattering of icons sit amongst glorious nebula and spectacular scenes!
I usually have a nice space picture as my computer’s desktop wallpaper. Today someone asked me where I find them. Well I find them all over the place. In the spirit of sharing, here are ten of the best. I have credited where possible. As far as I know, all images are Creative Commons licensed (but feel free to correct me).
Orion’s Belt (Credit: Digital Sky Survey)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
Galactic Centre (Credit: Susan Stolovy, Caltech)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
Helix (Credit: NASA, JPL)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
Rover Shadow (Credit: NASA)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
Pleiades (Credit: J. Stauffer, Caltech)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
ISS (Credit: STS-117 Shuttle Crew)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
Four Suns (Credit: T. Pyle, SSC)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
Sepia Moon (Credit: Stefan Seip)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
Aurora (Credit: Joshua Strang, USAF)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
NGC1977 (Credit: Martin Pugh)
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×800 | 1900×1200 | iPhone
February 6th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Those are some great photos. Unfortunately, I run at 2560×1600 on my main monitor so none of them will fill my screen without stretching. If you ever find yourself doing this again, could you please provide links to your sources?
February 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Excellent work on these.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
not sure if it matters, but that 4 suns image is computer generated art. i thought since the rest are actual, that seemed out of place.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Pretty!
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 pm
excellent!!!!!!!good!!!!!!!!mindblowing!!!!!!!!
October 26th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
just amazing.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:07 am
Thank you for your website
I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace,youtube and even more
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/5cy5cq
Hope you had a good day and thank you again!