Recently I was scanning the inter-webs for a new background, something to do with my interests.  And as I have told many of you, or you have figured out yourself,  I am an avid armature astronomer and have had my avatar on the site as a nebula of some kind.   As I stumbled around looking for a decent wallpaper that dealt with some sort of astronomical phenomenon, which can be surprisingly hard to find, I ran across some work done by Adam Burn that outright astonished me.  It was a tough choice on picking a wallpaper out of his many magnificent works.  I finally settled on this:

Paradise Lost: A simply stunning artist rendering if the violent death of a massive star we know as a supernova.

Paradise Lost

He has many more pieces of his work downloadable at: http://phoenix-06.deviantart.com/gallery/  I highly recommend you check them out, they are all amazing!  Also, If you know of anybody who has done similar pieces of art, let me know.  I love this kind of stuff.