Brilliance at Night: The Americas in Darkness Wall Art Framed Canvas 000 miles) from Rhea and

000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft

The bright smudges are dusty cocoons containing massive embryonic stars

2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile

Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)

Brilliance at Night: The Americas in Darkness Wall Art Framed Canvas 000 miles) from Rhea andThis 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