barbietramp:

This picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded September 18, 1977 

dvdp:

Hundreds of pictures of Earth, each taken at about 6AM , showing the terminator - the day/night line - over the course of one year (2010sep-2011sep).
Taken by METEOSAT-9 Earth-observing satellite.

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

(Source: universetoday.com)

itsfullofstars:

High Resolution Image of Earth by NASA’s New Suomi NPP Satellite

[laughingsquid]

brain-food:

David Fuhrer’s project, The Cosmos, is a set of infographics that depict the planets in our solar system with accurate scale and surface detail for an upcoming documentary and German book. The renderings of these digital planets have such incredible depth that it was hard to believe they were illustrations!

oh these are just wonderful. I WANT THEM.