Astronomy Picture of the Day photo of the January 30, 2001 evening skies above Nashville reveals the moon, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury.

Photograph taken by the Apollo 8 crew reveals a partially-obscured Earth hanging above the Moon's horizon. From Astronomy Picture of the day.

Enjoy a false-color image of the Earth, taken from a lunar observatory. In the photo, the Earth glows in ultraviolet light not visible to humans.

View an ultraviolet image of Earth's ionized gas plasmasphere, taken in 2000 by NASA's robot IMAGE spacecraft.

Enjoy astrophotographer Stan Richard's four-minute time exposure of the September skies above Iowa's Ashton-Wildwood Park.

Photo mosaic of Earth's Southern Hemisphere near the beginning of summer, created using images taken by the Galileo in December 1990.

Time-lapse sequence from the CONtinuous CAMera project shows the rotation of the sky during one night.

View a photograph of the Earth, taken by the Apollo 17 crew. Also find some basic facts about our planet.