Space Screen Savers

What better way to protect your monitor's phosphor than by smashing rocks into it at dozens of kilometres per second? This directory contains a Windows screen saver named "Craters" which simulates cratering of initially flat terrain, obeying the same power-law relating crater size to number observed on airless solar system bodies. Ready-to-use screen savers for both Windows 3.x and Windows 95 and complete source code are available for downloading.

Earth:Windows 32-bit screen saver that shows the Earth from a variety of viewpoints.

This directory contains a Windows screen saver (for 32-bit systems such as Windows 95 only) that shows the Earth with the correct illumination based on the date and time. You can view the Earth from the Sun (day side), Moon, night side, or at a given altitude above any location specified by latitude and longitude.

Skyscrsv:Windows screen saver that shows the sky: stars, planets, etc.

Now you never need to go outside again! This directory contains a Windows screen saver that shows the sky as it presently appears including stars from the more than 9000 star Yale Bright Star Catalogue, the Sun, Moon (with the correct phase), and planets, deep sky objects drawn from a database of more than 500 prominent objects including all Messier objects, constellation names, boundaries, and outlines, and ecliptic and equatorial co-ordinates. All of these items can be individually selected to customise the display. The screen saver can be configured for any time zone and any location on Earth. This program is based on the more comprehensive star map window of Home Planet (see homeplanet), adapted to be a self-contained and well-behaved screen saver. Like Home Planet, this program is in the public domain.

LIGHT SPEED: Produce infinite variations of starscapes for this interesting screen saver. Light Speed can display up to 6,000 stars on the screen, and you can even show clusters of virtual starfields as fast as 60 fps.

Lost in Space Screen Saver: Display images of the crew and the Jupiter II craft from the movie Lost in Space on your desktop.

Some Space Screen savers from ZDNET software library

UFO Screen Saver -- Watch flying saucers zoom across a virtual cityscape. To preview the screen saver, unzip both files and put them in your c:\windows\system directory. Then go to the Control Panel, click the Display icon, and select the Screen Saver tab.