Star Background

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Here are some cool star backgrounds. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”.

A Star-Formation Neighbor

This is an image of the Coronet Cluster located at the Corona Australis region. This region is generally characterized by an ongoing star formation activity. This region is located 420 light years away from the earth.

Blasting CME

This image of the sun was taken on January 8, 2002 as part of the ongoing research by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The image particularly features the coronal mass ejection of the sun.

Young Star Cluster Aglow With Mysterious X-Ray Cloud

Here’s a very nice photo of the star cluster RCW 38 captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory on December 18, 2002. The star cluster RCW 38 is approximately 6,000 light years from Earth.

The Brightest of Stars

Here’s an image of a star-forming region called LH 95 taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud that orbits the Milky Way.

There's More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye

Here’s an interesting image of the North star, also known as Polaris. The North Star, as seen on the image is actually a triple star system. This was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

We have written many articles about stars for Universe Today. Here’s an article about Hubble seeing a hypergiant star nearing death, and here’s an article about the truth behind the North star.

If you’d like more information on stars, check out Hubblesite’s News Releases about Stars, and here’s the stars and galaxies homepage.

We’ve done many episodes of Astronomy Cast about stars. Listen here, Episode 12: Where Do Baby Stars Come From?

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