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Hand-picked space wallpapers for desktop and mobile

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Nice collection, but please don't watermark wallpapers. Also would be nice to see the exact source of these images and the license.

Thanks for feedback! Retina resolution wallpapers for desktop and images ZIP-archive will be added soon. I promise you =)

This is a very nice website. Consider adding a grid view with thumbnail so we don't have to go through all the pages. Infinite loading too, perhaps?

Similar to this, I highly recommend the Google Chrome plugin "Earth View from Google Maps", which replaces the new tab display with a stunning satellite picture of some area of Earth. I occasionally let myself get distracted from whatever search I was going to do to follow the Google Maps link to check out the area.

It's like the geek's version of the Blue Marble Effect [2] ;)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go... [2] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2013/0...

A Ruby script to scrape and download desktop-resolution images: https://gist.github.com/schmich/243688ea24cdb6ea1c32

Too bad there isn't a way to download them all in a zip!

Very nice!

Are there any with radio telescopes gazing into the sky? Those are my go-to backgrounds when I think of "space" wallpapers. I've been using this one on my laptop for the past few weeks: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Four_ante...

Very nice collection, although I think it has a bit too many martian terrain ones and not enough of other types. I love martian terrains but they all seems to look like abstract art after a few images. How about moon shots and other stuff? EVA's, etc?

Still, very nice!

Pics from Hubble, Cassini-Huygens and Rosetta are coming. Stay tuned!

Adding support for categories/tags would be awesome, too :-)

I'll say thank you, and not make any further requests.

It's too bad how Apple-centric these resolutions are.

Apple-centric resolutions. I can tell by the pixels.

Fucking eh.

yea these are awesome, i collect wallpapers... I'm on page 5 and I've already downloaded about 8 of them... thank you ;)

Beautiful pictures. Would be nice to have more resolutions. E.g., retina Macbook Pro is 2560×1600.

15'' is 2880×1800. Most NASA images are high resolution enough that they should be available.

Related, but if you like the Mars HiRISE images I can highly recommend this book:

http://aperture.org/shop/books/this-is-mars-books

It's nothing that you can't find elsewhere, but it's really something else to see them printed in large-format. They're absolutely phenomenal photographs. What got to me is the sheer variety in the Martian landscape. Really incredible.

Is there a way to have a Mac desktop picture change on a daily basis to one of these?

Amazing work BTW!

Mac os app is in development, so don't forget to check it soon)

Please, don't encourage these people to create some restricted site-specific custom app.

Here is John's Background Switcher:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/johns-background-switcher/id...

I use it on Windows and it's very nice, and highly customizable. It works with a lot of sites, and custom searches.

1. Download wallpapers 2. Open Desktop & Screen Saver settings 3. Click the + icon and add the folder the wallpapers were saved to 4. Check "Change picture: Every day"

Thanks!

I think I just exhausted your bandwidth :P

* Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

It started working again :)

An RSS feed would be handy, too.

I've been to a few of those places.

Gorgeous.

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