Spiral Galaxy M100

Hubble sent back this awesome picture of the M100 Spiral Galaxy.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/pr1994002c/

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Supernova 1987A

An impressive image (from Hubble) of the shock wave and trace ring from Supernova 1987a. What you see here is a ring of gas (probably released 20,000 years before the star went nova), as well as a hot ring of material that is left over from the explosion that resulted from the star's death.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/30/image/a/

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Saturn and 4 Moons

Cassini sent back this snapshot of Saturn and 4 Moons this month. What a great picture!

Source: http://www.ciclops.org/view/6472/Quartet_and_Crescent

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Galactic Collision

62 million light-years from here, you could watch one of the largest scale collisions that occurs in our Universe: 2 Galaxies Colliding.

The Antennae galaxies are shown in this image. It's made from 3 of NASA's great Observatories -- the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red).

Much could be said about this image, but I think it's best to let the Universe speak for itself on this one.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/25/image/a/

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Mystic Mountain

This pillar of dust and gas resembles a massive mountain -- that looks like nothing on Earth. It's located in the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery, which is about 7,500 light-years away. Radiation and winds of charged particles from newborn stars are shaping and compressing this pillar, causing new stars to form inside it.


Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/13/image/a/

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Uranian Moon Titania

The general rule in Moon naming, is that a Planet will be named for a Roman god, and the moon or moons which orbit that Planet would be named for the wives, family, or other counterparts of that god, however, they are given their Greek names.

Rules were made to be broken, though. This is the case with Uranus. The first planet discovered by a Briton (astronomer William Lassell), the moons of Uranus are named for characters from Shakespearian plays. And this is how Titania earned her name. Titania is the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream”.


Voyager 2 snapped this photo of Titania on it's way out of the Solar System on January 24th, 1986.

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Supernova 1994D

Far away, long ago, a star exploded. Supernova 1994D, visible as the bright spot on the lower left, occurred in the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC 4526.


Source1: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/the_universe/pr1999019i/npp/all/titles/true/
Source2: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap981230.html

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GOODS South Survey

This shot of several Galaxies in the early Universe is a product of the GOODS survey.

From Wikipedia: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey or GOODS is an astronomical survey combining deep observations from three of NASAs Great Observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory along with data from other space-based telescopes, such as XMM Newton, and some of the worlds most powerful ground-based telescopes. GOODS is intended to enable astronomers to study the formation and evolution of galaxies in the distant (and hence early) universe.

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Enceladus shoots water into space.

Much like the Jovian moon Europa, Saturnian moon Enceladus is also believed to harbor a massive ocean of water under it's icy surface. However, unlike Europa, where scientists must determine a way to burrow through the miles and miles of ice, Enceladus offers up it's insides on a platter to us. Massive geysers spray water from deep within the moon out into space. Cassini shot this (raw/unedited) image of these spouts on August 13th, 2010.


While this picture may be "boring" compared to the more exotic shots found in the Universe, the fact that these geysers may offer our first glimpse of a 2nd genesis of life in the cosmos gives it a special place to me.


Source: http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/140/Enceladus_Tethys_and_Dione_Rev_136_Raw_Preview

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NASA's Great Observatories Examine the Galactic Center Region

Hubblesite has a great image of the Galactic Center Region from NASA.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/the_universe/pr2009028b/npp/all/titles/true/

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Europa and IO

New Horizons caught these two Jovian moons as they passed near each other. Europa is a calm, icy world; thought to perhaps be a possible home to alien life, as it likely has a massive ocean under it's surface. While Io is a volcanic moon, with gigantic and violent eruptions (one of which can be seen in the photo).

Source: http://www.ciclops.org/view/3957/Io_and_Europa_Meet_Again

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Neptune's Atmosphere

While not much is well known about the distant planets in our Solar System, Voyager 2 did manage to snap this awesome picture of the Atmosphere of Neptune, some 12 years after it left Earth.

Source: http://www.ciclops.org/ir_index/82/Voyager_at_Neptune

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The Greatest Picture Of Jupiter

Cassini captured what is known as the "Greatest Picture of Jupiter" on it's way to Saturn on November 13th, 2003. The massive planet is shown in full color, half-lit by the Sun.

Source: http://www.ciclops.org/ir_index/3/Jupiter_Encounter

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Jupiter and Io

New Horizons shot these images which are a montage of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io. They were taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007. The image of Jupiter is an infrared color composite taken by the near-infrared imaging spectrometer on the spacecraft.

Source: http://www.ciclops.org/view/3976/Jupiter-Io_Montage

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Ganymede

New Horizons caught this image of the Jovian moon Ganymede on it's way to Pluto.

New Horizons on the web: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
Source: http://www.ciclops.org/view/3994/Ganymede

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An Awesome Planetary Nebula

Hubble snapped this beautiful shot. Our own Sun may exhibit this behavior as it reaches the end of it's life and creates it's own Planetary Nebula.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/star/pr2009005a/npp/all/

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The Cloud Tops of Venus

Hubble snapped this great picture of the cloud tops on Venus.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/solar_system/pr1995016g/npp/all/

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Hello To Everyone Stopping By From Twitter!

Special Thanks to @Palm for posting a link to the blog!!

If you'd rather keep up with the new wallpapers on Twitter, just follow @spacewallpapers on the site.

I hope everyone enjoys these backgrounds for Palm webOS devices. These images are created by Nasa and the European Space Agency, who've sent many probes, satellites and telescopes into space, to be sure we're always on the bleeding edge of what's known about the great "out there!"

If there are any special requests for specific planets, stars, nebulae, galaxies or anything else from space, just post a comment or send a tweet and I'll do my best to make it happen!

Thanks again!!

NGC6210 Nebula

This is the NGC 6210 Planetary Nebula, which is also known as "The Giant Turtle".

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/nebula/pr1998036f/npp/all/

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Saturn

A sweeping view the entire planet of Saturn from the Cassini Satellite.

Source: http://www.ciclops.org/dlinks/5773/The_Rite_of_Spring

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Hoag's Object Galaxy

This wallpaper is made from a Hubble photo of a ring of hot blue stars creating a pinwheel around the yellow nucleus of Hoag's Object Galaxy.


Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy/pr2002021a/npp/all/

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Dying Star creates "Butterfly" in Space

A dying star expells gas that forms into this "butterfly" shape, in deep space.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2009025f/

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Island Galaxy in the Coma Cluster

This photo was snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, capturing the Island Galaxy in the Coma Cluster.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy/pr2010024a/

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Saturnian Moon Dione

These Palm Pre and Palm Pixi wallpapers were taken by the Cassini Satellite on August 14th, 2010. You can see the complete collection of photos here:

http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/140/Enceladus_Tethys_and_Dione_Rev_136_Raw_Preview?js=1

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