New Delhi's Night Lights under a Starry Sky, from the ISS
New Delhi and its suburbs photographed from the International Space Station on 21 August 2025, just before 3 a.m. local time. Under a starry sky and a band of airglow, the city lights blaze white. The original is rotated 180 degrees here so that the sky sits at the top.
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About this wallpaper
An ISS photograph from NASA's image library (iss073e0685684, taken 21 August 2025), cropped to 9:16. According to NASA's caption it was taken at about 2:55 a.m. local time from the station orbiting roughly 420 km up, with the lights of New Delhi and its suburbs glittering below the atmospheric glow, at the edge of the Himalayas. In the original the city is at the top and the stars at the bottom, so it is rotated 180 degrees here to put the sky at the top: star-flecked black space above, a greenish band of airglow and dark ground in the middle, and white city lights spreading across the bottom. A public-domain NASA photograph.
On the home screen
The city lights at the bottom are blazing white and make icon labels hard to read. Keep icons up in the starry sky.
On the lock screen
The top is black space flecked with stars, so a white clock reads clearly.
Colors and mood
A black starry sky, greenish airglow and white city lights.
Specs
- Aspect ratio
- 9:16
- Resolution
- 1440×2560
- Region
- Ember Coast
- Coordinates
- 04·03
- Sector
- ISLAND III
- Lock-screen clock
- ◎ Clearly readable
- Home screen
- ○ Fine
- Pure black
- 41%
- Brightness
- 57 / 255 · dark
- Artist
- NASA / ISS Expedition 73 · 2025-08-21
- 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
