Here's a description of a wonderful picture that demonstrates yet again how beautiful the nearby universe is. I say 'nearby' cause this was just taken while in orbit around our planet, not light years away. I love astronomy and I'm always astonished at how much we rarely take the vastness of space into consideration for our everyday lives.
It's as if we're "content" with Earth and the "grain of sand" symbol it represents. However, once we peek away from Earth and see what's out there, there's no turning back. That's what happened to me late 1990's while reading an astronomy book for the first time and I discovered what space truly was. I realized how futile our existence here on Earth may be. And while significant, it has no impact whatsoever "out there". This picture is a small representation of this, but a very nice first step in realizing this further for yourselves...
"Crescent Moon Rising and Earth's Atmosphere
On Feb. 1, 2014, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata tweeted this view of a crescent moon rising and the cusp of Earth's atmosphere. Distinct colors are visible because the dominant gases and particles in each layer of the atmosphere act as prisms, filtering out certain colors of light."
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