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Hand-picked space wallpapers for desktop and mobile

63 points by rokkeds 12y ago

netcraft 12y ago
Too bad there isn't a way to download them all in a zip!
dcre 12y ago
Beautiful pictures. Would be nice to have more resolutions. E.g., retina Macbook Pro is 2560×1600.
- Osmium 12y ago
  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 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.
markbnj 12y ago
Gorgeous.
rokkeds 12y ago
Thanks for feedback! Retina resolution wallpapers for desktop and images ZIP-archive will be added soon. I promise you =)
pavel_lishin 12y ago
An RSS feed would be handy, too.
dublinben 12y ago
It's too bad how Apple-centric these resolutions are.
- hipster_robot 12y ago
  Apple-centric resolutions. I can tell by the pixels.
- jonathantm 12y ago
  Fucking eh.
helipad 12y ago
I'll say thank you, and not make any further requests.
secfirstmd 12y ago
Is there a way to have a Mac desktop picture change on a daily basis to one of these? Amazing work BTW!
- rokkeds 12y ago
  Mac os app is in development, so don't forget to check it soon)
- zo1 12y ago
  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/id907640277?mt=12 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.
- addandsubtract 12y ago
  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"
  - secfirstmd 12y ago
    Thanks!
cultavix 12y ago
yea these are awesome, i collect wallpapers... I'm on page 5 and I've already downloaded about 8 of them... thank you ;)
tekni5 12y ago
Nice collection, but please don't watermark wallpapers. Also would be nice to see the exact source of these images and the license.
tough-crowd 12y ago
I've been to a few of those places.
Raphmedia 12y ago
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?
saganus 12y ago
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!
- rokkeds 12y ago
  Pics from Hubble, Cassini-Huygens and Rosetta are coming. Stay tuned!
  - mct 12y ago
    Adding support for categories/tags would be awesome, too :-)
schmich 12y ago
A Ruby script to scrape and download desktop-resolution images: https://gist.github.com/schmich/243688ea24cdb6ea1c32 https://gist.github.com/schmich/243688ea24cdb6ea1c32
AceJohnny2 12y ago
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-google-ma/bhloflhklmhfpedakmangadcdofhnnoh?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go... [2] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2013/02/27/seeing-the-blue-marble-for-the-first-time/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2013/0...
snake_plissken 12y ago
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_antennas_ALMA.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Four_ante...
kbody 12y ago
I think I just exhausted your bandwidth :P * Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
- rokkeds 12y ago
  It started working again :)

63 points by rokkeds 12y ago

netcraft 12y ago

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

dcre 12y ago

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

Osmium 12y ago
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 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.

markbnj 12y ago

Gorgeous.

rokkeds 12y ago

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

pavel_lishin 12y ago

An RSS feed would be handy, too.

dublinben 12y ago

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

hipster_robot 12y ago
Apple-centric resolutions. I can tell by the pixels.
jonathantm 12y ago
Fucking eh.

helipad 12y ago

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

secfirstmd 12y ago

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

rokkeds 12y ago
Mac os app is in development, so don't forget to check it soon)
zo1 12y ago
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/id907640277?mt=12 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.
addandsubtract 12y ago
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"
- secfirstmd 12y ago
  Thanks!

cultavix 12y ago

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

tekni5 12y ago

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

tough-crowd 12y ago

I've been to a few of those places.

Raphmedia 12y ago

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?

saganus 12y ago

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!

rokkeds 12y ago
Pics from Hubble, Cassini-Huygens and Rosetta are coming. Stay tuned!
- mct 12y ago
  Adding support for categories/tags would be awesome, too :-)

schmich 12y ago

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

AceJohnny2 12y ago

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-google-ma/bhloflhklmhfpedakmangadcdofhnnoh?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go... [2] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2013/02/27/seeing-the-blue-marble-for-the-first-time/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2013/0...

snake_plissken 12y ago

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_antennas_ALMA.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Four_ante...

kbody 12y ago

I think I just exhausted your bandwidth :P * Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

rokkeds 12y ago
It started working again :)