A Telescopic Treasure | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 15 April 16 NGC 135 in the constellation Sculptor offers a stunning example of a spiral galaxy.
Mars Has Layers | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 31 March 16 Near the base of Mount Sharp on Mars, layer upon layer of sediment formed these rocks over millions of years.
Sun Flower | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 26 March 16 While this looks like a delicate rose, it's actually a close up of magnetically confined tubes of hot plasma.
An Ill-Fated Powerhouse: Eta Carinae | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 25 March 16 This star, with a mass of 100 times that of Earth's Sun, could explode into a supernova.
Nighttime Lights in a US Megalopolis | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 24 March 16 The Eastern Seaboard includes these five major cities and glow beautifully in this image taken from the International Space Station.
Pluto, As Seen by New Horizons | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 23 March 16 Using New Horizons' MVIC Pluto's Sputnik Planum comes to life in vibrant colors.
The Cosmic Whale and Its Galactic Neighbors | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 22 March 16 NGC 4631, known as The Whale Galaxy, has been found to have a few close neighbor galaxies, including NGC 4627.
Phobos: A Doomed Moon | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 9 March 16 One of Mars' moons travels a path of doom, being stretched and pulled by Mars' gravity on its way to becoming a ring around the red planet.
An Early Morning Meeting | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 4 March 16 In the predawn skies on December 7, 2015, an exquisite convergence of a crescent Moon, an intense planet Venus and the two-tailed Comet Catalina beckons the Sun.
Approaching Neptune | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 2 March 16 In 1989, Voyager 2 approached Neptune and captured the first images of the soft, elongated cirrus-type clouds in the planet's atmosphere.
Our Blue Marble and Its Natural Satellite | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 24 February 16 A spacecraft's camera snapped this view of the (normally) dark side of the Moon crossing the face of the Full Earth.
An Angry Sun | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 18 February 16 Routinely, our sun gives angry displays of plasma large enough to dwarf planets throughout our Solar System.
Don't Worry, Be Happy Now | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 17 February 16 This cosmic grinning emoji consists of multiple galaxies in the background with the galaxies in the foreground creating a lensing effect.
Comet Tails, Comas and Nuclei, Oh My | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 13 February 16 Comet 67P hurtles through space releasing bits of itself along the way through its tails and coma.
Running from Beauty: A Darker Side of Orion | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 10 February 16 NGCs in the 1970s are often snubbed by astronomers in favor of the brighter glow of other nebulae, but as seen in this image, they are very much worth the attention.
Light-Years and Luminosity: Tarantula Nebula | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 9 February 16 The Tarantula Nebula, at close to 200,000 light-years away, is a stunningly bright, non-stellar object.
Estrellas y Fuego | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 6 February 16 Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego erupted near midnight to the peaceful backdrop of stars over Escuintla.
Wispy, Warped Tail of Comet Lovejoy | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 5 February 16 Comet Lovejoy's long, contorted tail stretches across the cosmos.
Our Little Blue Marble and Its Moon | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 4 February 16 China's Change'e 5-T1 brought home a rarely seen view of home — our blue marble is small as seen from the other side of the Moon.
A New Look at Europa | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff published 3 February 16 Remastering data gathered by the Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s, experts released an image of Jupiter's moon Europa that a deep space explorer might see.