Space Wallpapers | Universe Today

Written by Fraser Cain

Here are some amazing space wallpapers. If you want to make one of these your computer desktop wallpaper, just click on the image. That will take you to a much larger version of the image. You can then right-click on the image and choose, "Set as Desktop Background". That will make any of these space wallpapers your desktop background.

Earthrise

This is one of the most famous space photographs every taken. It's called "Earthrise", and it was captured by the crew of Apollo 8 as they were orbiting around the Moon. They saw the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon and captured this amazing photograph.

Earth from space

NASA created this amazing wallpaper as part of its celebration for Sun-Earth day in 2008. You can see the Sun shining just outside of the photograph above.

Supernova 1054 AD

Almost 1000 years ago, a star detonated in the sky as a supernova, shining brilliantly for a few days. After it faded away, it was replaced by this amazing nebula.

Star formation in the Eagle Nebula

This amazing space wallpaper shows active star formation in the Eagle Nebula. These newly forming stars are blasting out huge clouds of gas and dust into space.

Saturn wallpaper

Here's a beautiful image of Saturn captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a time that it was positioned over the planet's pole.

We have got lots of image galleries here in Universe Today. Here are some Earth wallpapers, and here are some Venus wallpapers.

You can also download some cool space wallpapers from NASA's JPL, and here are some wallpapers from Hubble.

You might also want to try listening to an episode of Astronomy Cast. Here's an episode just about the Hubble Space Telescope.

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