Carl Sagan Day Nov 9, 2025

Carl Sagan Day

The universe hums with creation. Featured here, in the Lagoon Nebula, a cluster called NGC 6530 is kindling newborn stars, a glowing reminder that beginnings are woven into the fabric of the cosmos. About 4,350 light-years away and a few million years old, it is a stellar formation still in its earliest chapter.

© ESA/NASA

palette

Today in History

Nov 9, 2018Let’s go foraging
Nov 9, 2019We heart Berlin
Nov 9, 2020Autumn in Piedmont
Nov 9, 2021Dalyan, Turkey
Nov 9, 2022European hedgehog in Sussex, England
Nov 9, 2023Birch trees, Drammen, Norway
Nov 9, 2024Aït Benhaddou, Morocco

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Sep 29, 2018Vietnam’s new bridge deserves a big hand
Oct 31, 2023Halloween
Aug 21, 2018Ingenuity in action on the Santa Monica Pier
Sep 14, 2018Back to the nest
Jul 8, 2023Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel in Arkansas
Sep 28, 2021The snows of Fuji
Apr 29, 2022Arbor Day
Sep 18, 2025Dunquin Pier, County Kerry, Ireland
Feb 28, 2018Isla del Pescado on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
Jul 21, 2021An octagonal architectural treasure
Oct 27, 2019A festival of lights in India
May 4, 2021Happy Star Wars Day!
Jan 17, 2018Train crossing the Tadami River in Japan
Aug 25, 2021Happy anniversary to the National Park Service!
Jun 16, 2020In the footsteps of Leopold Bloom
Sep 3, 2023Skyscraper Day
Aug 5, 2018Friendship Day in the City of Brotherly Love
Apr 6, 2018It’s National Walk to Work Day
Dec 31, 2018A new tradition in London
Feb 2, 2020Hut, hut, hike!
Mar 4, 2025Happy Fat Tuesday!
May 30, 2018‘The memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever’
Apr 10, 2025Siblings Day
Jan 1, 2023New Year s Day
Jan 22, 2019Is this Minecraft headquarters?
Sep 5, 2021Venice s grand regatta
Jan 7, 2020Jupiter and the Galilean moons
May 26, 2022Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica
Apr 20, 2021Terraced fields of green
Jul 1, 2025Happy Canada Day!