It’s time for more amazing images to add to your collection, and maybe update your wallpaper.  I can never get enough gorgeous wallpapers to put on my desktop, and these seemed to fit well.

I’ll start off with this one from the GLOBE at Night study for 2010.  It’s their dark sky image, and it makes a beautiful desktop.

Here’s an image from NASA, showing the Vulcepula constellation.  This was presented May 6, 2010, and credit goes to ESA.

Isn’t that incredible?

Another one from ESO.  This is Cerro Armazones at night:

This next image is the Sombrero Galaxy in infrared, brought to you by Hubble.

Next, from the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, PSR B1509-58.  Courtesy of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and NASA, this is just one of hundreds of beautiful images you can look at here.

And finally this beauty, from the NASA/ESA SOHO project, showing CMEs with aurorae.  SOHO has new information up daily, with special emphasis now on sunspots since we seem to be shaking off a “mini-minimum”.  See more gorgeous images of the Sun at the SOHO home page.

You’ll have to let me know which is your favorite.  I have to say, in this collection the SOHO image is my favorite, with the GLOBE at Night coming a close second.  In my post yesterday about telescopes, I said something about Hubble, et al, “rocking our world” daily with images like these.

Don’t they just?