http://www.spacewallpapers.net/ Space wallpapers and Astronomy site that offers the largest selection of free space wallpapers Astronomy Computers Desktops We've gone widescreen! Two new widescreen wallpaper galleries have been added to the site. As always you will find only the highest quality space wallpapers available for download. All the widescreen wallpapers are available at a resolution of 2560x1600 and remain free to download. The Solar System gallery contains all the widescreen wallpapers related to happenings in our solar system. These include wallpapers of the planets, shuttle launches, astronauts as well as space art by various artists. The Deep Sky gallery contains widescreen wallpapers of deep sky objects. These include galaxies, star clusters and nebulae. http://www.spacewallpapers.net/wallpapers/thumbnails.php?album=10 We have updated the site with wallpapers featuring the Atlantis launch and preperations for the STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Be sure to keep checking back since we will add more wallpapers as they become available. Godspeed to the crew of Atlantis! http://www.spacewallpapers.net/wallpapers/thumbnails.php?album=lastup More than 40 space wallpapers have been added to the site. New space art, planetary and nebulae wallpapers are now available for download. Be sure to check them out. http://www.spacewallpapers.net/wallpapers/thumbnails.php?album=lastup Due to your overwhelming support Spacewallpapers.net has reached 10 million page loads and 2,1 million unique visitors in the 3 years the site has been running. Thank you for your support. We'll keep providing only the best quality space wallpapers for you to enjoy. Let's hope there's another 10 million in the site's future! If you have any suggestions on how the site can be improved, or if you want to see something specific featured on the site please contact us. We are always looking for new space artists or astrophotographers. http://www.spacewallpapers.net/ We are proud to announce that the site will be featuring space art by Andrew C Stewart. Andrew specializes in high quality airbrush artwork. Some of his work has been featured in Astronomy Magazine, Astronomy Now and New Scientists. http://www.spacewallpapers.net/wallpapers/displayimage.php?pos=-665 We are currently in the process of moving the website to a new host. You might experience some outages or errors while this takes place. If you experience any problems that don't resolve themselves within a few hours please let us know at spacewallpapers@gmail.com. http://www.spacewallpapers.net The two main players comprising Arp 87 are NGC 3808 on the right (the larger of the two galaxies) and its companion NGC 3808A on the left. NGC 3808 is a nearly face-on spiral galaxy with a bright ring of star formation and several prominent dust arms. Stars, gas, and dust flow from NGC 3808, forming an enveloping arm around its companion. NGC 3808A is a spiral galaxy seen edge-on and is surrounded by a rotating ring that contains stars and interstellar gas clouds. Credit: NASA/Hubble Heritage http://www.spacewallpapers.net/wallpapers/displayimage.php?pos=-599 A growing black hole, called a quasar, can be seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist's concept. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes discovered swarms of similar quasars hiding in dusty galaxies in the distant universe. The quasar is the orange object at the center of the large, irregular-shaped galaxy. It consists of a dusty, doughnut-shaped cloud of gas and dust that feeds a central supermassive black hole. As the black hole feeds, the gas and dust heat up and spray out X-rays, as illustrated by the white rays. Beyond the quasar, stars can be seen forming in clumps throughout the galaxy. Other similar galaxies hosting quasars are visible in the background. Credit: NASA http://www.spacewallpapers.net/wallpapers/displayimage.php?pos=-598