The tiny blue dot in the middle of the brown stripe at the top of the image is our planet Earth seen from the distance of 6 billion kilometers.

The amazing, beautiful part of Earth
 

Dutch astronaut and physician Andre Kuipers, who’s currently working at the International Space station, took these marvelous pictures with his SLR. Good photographic skills and perfect vantage point enabled the man to make the images so stunning that some of them seem absolutely unreal.

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All these incredible pictures of earth at night were taken from the International Space Station since summer 2003 and shared by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

Aurora Australis Over New Zealand, Tasman Sea

This is all the water and atmosphere on Earth.

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This is what the landscape of earth looks like from space. It is nothing short of awesome. Take a look and see if you don’t agree.

Gargano, Italia

Floating in space has its perks, including having a tremendous vantage point of our beautiful rotating planet. See which of these gorgeous Earth pictures inspire you the most.

These are some beautiful places on Earth that are definitely worth seeing. If I have occasion one day, I’ll  go to all of them.

Mount Roraima, Venezuela

That’s the true distance from the Earth to the Moon, which seems so deceptively close. The scale is saved.

It has been 50 years since Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth, and therefore it is necessary to celebrate with these stunning pictures. Regardless of if a photo was taken decades ago our planet is still just as beautiful.

Here are the five towns located in the most unpredictable and breathtaking places.

Ronda, Spain

You’ll never truly appreciate how beautiful earth is until you check out these pictures of images of earth as it is viewed from space.

Parana River Delta

Google earth is a very effective tool if used right but this is one feature the Bahrain government would gladly do without. The government blocked Google Earth when it discovered that the oppressed Shiite majority where using the tool to view palaces and other estates that make up 95% of the country. The controversial images captured in an anonymously distributed PDF file caused uproar and fed the current mass revolt happening in the country.

We already posted beautiful photos taken by Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock which appeared on his Twitter account. It seems that other astronauts follow his example. Here’s another set of pictures made this time by astronaut Paolo Nespoli while he was aboard the space station. The photo was taken approximately 1,000 km northeast of the Solomon Islands.

If you look at Earth from space, you’ll be amazed at how beautiful it is. And if you apply false color to the photos created by satellite sensors, you’ll get a stunning artistic result.

Great Salt Desert, Iran

Check out this cartoon about how hard it is to get used to ordinary life on the earth again.

Amazing pictures, so bright and deep in colors. This is what real paradise on earth might look like. Probably I just need a vacation ;)

You’ll see different continents and how they look at night. You’ll also see the difference of illumination.

Can you imagine a world with only 100 people left? I can’t. But if you look at this collection of posters, you’ll get the idea of what it would be like if our world had only one village with 100 citizens.