The Milky Way beyond Dragon Endeavour, from the ISS
The Milky Way photographed from the International Space Station on 1 July 2024. Beyond the dimly lit SpaceX Dragon Endeavour, docked to the Harmony module, countless stars and dark dust lanes fill almost the entire frame.
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About this wallpaper
An ISS photograph from NASA's image library (iss071e256593, taken 1 July 2024), cropped to 9:16 around the densest part of the Milky Way. According to NASA's caption, the galaxy appears behind the dimly lit SpaceX Dragon Endeavour docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port. The crop leaves out almost all of the spacecraft; only a dark shape and a faint reddish glow remain in the lower-left corner. Grayish star clouds and dark dust lanes cover the whole frame, and only about a fifth of it is pure black. A public-domain NASA photograph.
On the home screen
Fine stars cover the whole frame, so icon labels get a little hard to read; icons over the dark dust lanes read best.
On the lock screen
The top is dark sky scattered with fine stars, and a white clock reads without trouble.
Colors and mood
Grayish star clouds, brown dust lanes and black space.
Specs
- Aspect ratio
- 9:16
- Resolution
- 1440×2560
- Region
- Velvet Bay
- Coordinates
- 06·05
- Sector
- ISLAND III
- Lock-screen clock
- ◎ Clearly readable
- Home screen
- ◎ Icon labels stand out
- Pure black
- 17%
- Brightness
- 44 / 255 · dark
- Artist
- NASA / ISS Expedition 71 · 2024-07-01
- Source
- NASA (public domain)
- License
- Public domain (NASA)
This is a public-domain photograph by NASA. You may use it freely, but not in a way that suggests NASA endorses or is involved with your use. See the license
