Virtual Backgrounds

NSF research impacts nearly every field of science and engineering. NSF's influence reaches from the ends of the Earth to the depths of the oceans and to space and beyond. Explore some of our most beautiful images below to download for your next virtual meeting.

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Credit: Graphic by U.S. National Science Foundation/Image: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/H. Stockebrand

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Adelie penguins dive off the ice and into the sea at Ross Island, Antarctica

Credit: penguinscience.com

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The Milky Way Galaxy is seen over the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array west of Socorro, New Mexico.

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Jeff Hellerman (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported -- CC BY 3.0).

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Medusa' shaped droplets containing liquid crystal molecules

Credit: Wei-Shao Wei, Arjun G. Yodh, and Felice Macera, Department of Physics and Astronomy & LRSM, University of Pennsylvania

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A late seasonal sunrise overlooking Arthur’s Harbor on the south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. The U.S. Antarctic Program is managed by NSF.

Credit: Randall Rhodes/USAP

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