NASA releases stunning first images of Earth taken by the Artemis II astronauts

I cannot even begin to wrap my head around how it must truly feel to leave your planet and see it from space like this. This is our one true, only home. And to think of how we are all slowly ruining this cosmic masterpiece…

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” - Carl Sagan

Space is back baby!

There is actually a satellite - Goresat - out behind the moon. https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ It is unfortunately down this week. https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/natural/2026/03/25/png/epic_1b_20260325001752.png This is the 25th of last month, with the best matching image.

I think I see my dad. Son of a b**** is down there somewhere.

I never realized you can *see* the edge of the atmosphere like that. Not just the northern lights, the actual end of the sky. That's amazing.

Flat Earthers : "This is AI slop"

I can see my house from there 

Space race is always driven by geopolitics. It was cold war in 1960s. Now it is a competition with China.

The amount of comments I’ve seen from people on social media saying Space is “fake” and NASA is using AI have me really questioning things. How are we so dumb?

Wait…. The damn thing is round???

Now I want all you humans to break up into groups…and then spend your entire existence waring with one another because of watch patch of dirt you live on World history summed up right there

If only the world leaders could go up into space and look back at the Earth and see the beautiful place where 9 billion people live. Maybe then the world would be all peace and love. 🌼

From that view it doesnt look like the dumpster fire it is

The Artemis II mission itself is genuinely exciting,it’s incredible that humans will once again see Earth from space with their own eyes. That said, not to be a downer these images aren’t particularly “stunning.” We already have better images of Earth from satellites. The significance here is that its from a human perspective while in space.

Cool looks the same since the 50's

Why do I have the feeling we are in 1968 again? We are (NASA is, I am doing nothing) repeating everything that was done already back then.

We are just mold on a rock floating through space

Nice to see this in a world where funds for space exploration are being cut, in a world where humans killing themselves is more profitable than exploring the universe...

Checkmate flat Earth motherfuckers. Ooops I forgot they will make up the wildest insane reasons to disregard any and all irrefutable evidence that we live on a globe.

I can see my home from here !

Can someone explain something to me? The picture shows the northern lights which is cool in and of itself but it also shows that the Earth is in front of the Sun ( between the photographer and the Sun ), so an eclipse if you will. So if the Earth is between should the side photographed not be in darkness because the light from the Sun would be hitting to otherside.of the planet? Shouldn't we be seeing a nightside of Earth with streetlights?

The earth looks pretty flat in that image. I thought it was supposed to be round. /s

Is it just me or is earth looking kind of rough?

Oh yeah cool, but what does the moon look like that close up?

What the hell? The Earth's not flat. A lot of people going to be saying fake 😂

Always amazed that its flatness looks the same no matter the view??

Are the flat earth subs losing their minds today? I would go over and have some fun with comments, but it’s like kicking the sad kid at recess

What CNN and NASA don't make immediately obvious is that this picture was taken of the night side of the earth in shadow, meaning that they used special photoshop enhancements to show it far brighter than it actually is. Of course this gives the deniers ammunition to shout "it's all fake!" and undermining the efforts of the space adminitration. To this day NASA drops the social media ball like a drunken step dad at last call.

Guys, can someone help understand, what continent is that? Australia?

Take that round globers. This picture is flat af

Reminder to check on your flat earthers. They're in shambles today.

Kind of trippy thinking about how we are in the pictures. I can't really say why but it feels weird 😅

I wouldn't blame them for not wanting to come back 

I’m squinting as hard as I can but all I can see is Uranus.

Flat earthers are going to love this

Flat earthers in shambles.

Is the land mass Australia? If so, it looks way bigger in this photo than it does on my globe

Flat earthers will still say it’s fake

hmm but the earth if flat. the universe was made in 7 days, dinosaurs don't exist. this is AI. Don't vaccinate. MAGA.

We could all use the “Pale Blue Dot” monologue right now.

"Wait, it's all Australia?" *^(\*click)*

I can’t even imagine what it must be like to leave Earth behind and look back at it from space. This is the only home we have, the one place that holds all of us. And yet, it’s unsettling to realize how we’re gradually damaging something so extraordinary.