About this wallpaper
Green and red aurora curtains sweep above dark mountains in a painted polar landscape. A tiny vessel on the water emphasizes the vast sky and remote setting.
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 4001 × 2667 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 48% of the original | Crops about 16% from the top and bottom |
| QHD (1440p) | 2560 × 1440 | Sharp: scaled down to 64% of the original | Crops about 16% from the top and bottom |
| 4K UHD | 3840 × 2160 | Sharp: scaled down to 96% of the original | Crops about 16% from the top and bottom |
| 16:10 laptop (WUXGA) | 1920 × 1200 | Sharp: scaled down to 48% of the original | Crops about 6% from the top and bottom |
| 16:10 QHD+ | 2560 × 1600 | Sharp: scaled down to 64% of the original | Crops about 6% from the top and bottom |
| Ultrawide QHD (21:9) | 3440 × 1440 | Sharp: scaled down to 86% of the original | Crops about 37% from the top and bottom |
Need a different shape? Use Crop & Scale to choose the framing yourself. See how aspect ratio affects wallpapers for more.
Download information
- The download is the original JPEG file, 4001 × 2667 pixels, 2.2 MB, with no recompression.
- The file is saved as
frederic-edwin-church-aurora-borealis-google-art-project-4001x2667.jpg. - No account is needed to download.
Source and license
- Author: Frederic Edwin Church.
- Source: commons.wikimedia.org ↗
- License: Public domain
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