The Milky Way through Dragon's Window, by Don Pettit
The Milky Way in a long exposure by astronaut Don Pettit through the window of the Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station, 28 November 2024. A band of stars fills the round window frame, and the greenish glow of Earth's limb arcs across the bottom.
Free · 1440×2560 px. Tap and hold the opened image (right-click on a computer) to save it.
About this wallpaper
An ISS photograph from NASA's image library (iss072e281196, taken 28 November 2024), cropped to 9:16 around the inside of the window. According to NASA's caption it is a long-duration exposure looking out of a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, taken as the station orbited about 420 km above the Pacific northeast of New Zealand. The dark rim of the round window frames the right and bottom of the image, a diagonal band of Milky Way stars fills the inside, and Earth's limb shows along the bottom as an arc of green and white light with a thin reddish layer above it. Credit NASA/Don Pettit; public domain.
On the home screen
Stars fill the inside of the window and the frame on the right and bottom is dark. Icons at the top leave the glow of Earth below visible.
On the lock screen
The top is dark sky scattered with stars, and a white clock reads without trouble.
Colors and mood
A black window frame, a grayish band of stars and green and white Earth glow.
Specs
- Aspect ratio
- 9:16
- Resolution
- 1440×2560
- Region
- Tide Hollow
- Coordinates
- 02·04
- Sector
- ISLAND III
- Lock-screen clock
- ◎ Clearly readable
- Home screen
- ◎ Icon labels stand out
- Pure black
- 33%
- Brightness
- 56 / 255 · dark
- Artist
- Don Pettit / NASA · 2024-11-28
- 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
