You know where he's getting the images to make those? I've been searching for higher quality wallpaper for a while, but I've got the problem of having a 3840x1024 display in all of its xineramic funkiness.

Cheers,

Finegan

Posted by: finegan on June 2, 2003 12:39 PM

fin, here's some of my "viewing list" starting with space-based scopes. Some of these provide really high-res images, others not.

Hubble:
http://hubble.nasa.gov/image-gallery/astronomy-images.html
http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
http://hubble.esa.int/hubble/gallery/

MOC and THEMIS (on global surveyor and oddyssey orbiting Mars):
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/index.html
http://themis.asu.edu/latest.html

Chandra:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/chronological.html

SOHO:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html

Viking and Mariner:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/group_page/MR.html

Magellan:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/images.html

Big Earth-based scopes:
http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/science/
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/
http://www.heavensgloryobservatory.com/
http://www.nrao.edu/imagegallery/
http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/rector/digital/index.html
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/mainimages.html
http://www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/
http://www.perseus.gr/
http://www.rc-astro.com/
http://rezman-obs.web.siol.com/gallery.htm

Other:
http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/photos.html (Goddard)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (Astronomy Picture of the Day. follow the credit links to sometimes get to originals or additionals)

NSSDC:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/

Posted by: Asa on June 2, 2003 02:53 PM

Too bad Chris Pirrilo's a fucking jackass, eh?

Posted by: Chris Fan on June 5, 2003 10:49 AM

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