Space Desktop Wallpapers

Space desktop wallpapers draw from the most extreme boundary of what photography can capture — images made from telescopes, space stations, planetary probes, and the mathematical models that translate raw telescope data into color images of objects too faint and distant for the human eye to detect unaided. The collection includes nebulae where stellar nurseries produce color combinations that range from the subtle to the overwhelming, galaxy clusters showing the large-scale structure of the universe, planetary surfaces from Mars rovers and Jupiter probes, the curvature of Earth as seen from orbit with terminator lines and city lights visible at night, and the moon's surface photographed with enough detail to see crater geology and the long shadows of low-angle sunlight. All images are HD and 4K resolution. Space wallpapers create a particular kind of desktop presence — the scale of the subjects makes everything else feel appropriately small, and the colors of deep space imagery are unlike anything produced by terrestrial light. These backgrounds are particularly effective on dark desktop themes, where the surrounding darkness is an extension of the image rather than a frame around it.

See also: Weather wallpaper, Nature wallpaper