Brilliance at Night: The Americas in Darkness Wall Art Framed Canvas Shining brightly below the galaxy

Shining brightly below the galaxy is a star that is actually within our own Milky Way galaxy

Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)

The bright smudges are dusty cocoons containing massive embryonic stars

This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

The purple tone of the foreground rocks has been seen in other rocks where Curiosity's Chemical and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument has detected hematite

Brilliance at Night: The Americas in Darkness Wall Art Framed Canvas Shining brightly below the galaxyThis image of North and South America at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The new data was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet. For more such images of our planet, read Earth at Night, NASA's latest ebook that features dazzling photographs and images from space of Earths nightlights. For nearly 25 years, satellite images of