Now this is actually a really cool idea here--what you're seeing is a picture of the Eastern Hemisphere at night.  It encompasses Europe, Africa, India, and a good chunk of the Asian subcontinent. Those are lights you're seeing, and the more lights you see, the more urbanized the area is. And you can see how developed ...

This may not be so much a picture FROM space as it is a picture OF space, but still, it's so very awesome that it needs to be mentioned.  This was taken last year and found on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site via the NOAA. The shot was taken in Turkey, near the ...

Check out this positively awesome picture from space, which wends its way to us via the NOAA satellite systems.  It's a shot of Hurricane Jimena as it cruises over the Baja peninsula. Now, considering that, by the looks of that thing It's at least the SIZE of the Baja Peninsula, and quite possibly double the size ...