I know these have been out for a while, but, I couldn’t resist adding some space beauty to my blog, as I am, after all, an astrophysicist. The first is the truly spectacular picture taken by the Kaguya wide-angel HD camera, from ’s . It is of Earthrise from . I chose this link because you can easily click on the image for a nice, larger one, and it has links to the really cool version. The second is a pretty neat picture of the taken from the shuttle. Both the Earth and the look so small and fragile, don’t they?

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