smithsonianmag: The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring Ed note: Perfect for your desktop background. Click the photo for the 8000x8000 image h/t Gizmodo

smithsonianmag:

The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever

This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.

Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring

Ed note: Perfect for your desktop background. Click the photo for the 8000x8000 image

h/t Gizmodo

(via theatlantic)

henrytheworst: Let’s be honest, Carl Sagan is probably the best human being ever. 

henrytheworst:

Let’s be honest, Carl Sagan is probably the best human being ever. 

The largest reservoir of water yet discovered in the cosmos, 12 billion light years away. (via NASA - Quasar Drenched in Water Vapor)

The largest reservoir of water yet discovered in the cosmos, 12 billion light years away.

(via NASA - Quasar Drenched in Water Vapor)