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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
.
