About this wallpaper
The faint glow of an aurora is seen over Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. Auroras are created by energetic electrons, which rain down from Earth’s magnetic bubble and interact with particles in the upper atmosphere to create glowing lights that stretch across the sky.
Best use cases
- Desktops where you are fine with the image being cropped slightly to fill the screen.
- 4K monitors and TVs at native resolution; it also scales down cleanly to QHD and Full HD.
- Any other screen size: the Crop & Scale tool on this page exports the image at a custom resolution.
Resolution and display compatibility
This image is 6240 × 4160 pixels (3:2). The table shows what happens when it is scaled to fill common screens, calculated from those dimensions.
| Display | Resolution | Sharpness | Framing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full HD (1080p) | 1920 × 1080 | Sharp: scaled down to 31% of the original | Crops about 16% from the top and bottom |
| QHD (1440p) | 2560 × 1440 | Sharp: scaled down to 41% of the original | Crops about 16% from the top and bottom |
| 4K UHD | 3840 × 2160 | Sharp: scaled down to 62% of the original | Crops about 16% from the top and bottom |
| 16:10 laptop (WUXGA) | 1920 × 1200 | Sharp: scaled down to 31% of the original | Crops about 6% from the top and bottom |
| 16:10 QHD+ | 2560 × 1600 | Sharp: scaled down to 41% of the original | Crops about 6% from the top and bottom |
| Ultrawide QHD (21:9) | 3440 × 1440 | Sharp: scaled down to 55% of the original | Crops about 37% from the top and bottom |
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- The download is the original JPEG file, 6240 × 4160 pixels, 29 MB, with no recompression.
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aurora-borealis-at-kennedy-space-center-6240x4160.jpg. - No account is needed to download.
Source and license
- Author: NASA/Ben Smegelsky.
- Source: not specified for this wallpaper.
- License: Public domain (NASA) ↗
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