🤩 Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka – we see you! ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Photographed by Randy Bresnik of @NASAAstronauts from the @ISS, this image shows nighttime lights over Japan on Nov. 6, 2017. The lights are concentrated around three of the country’s major cities: Tokyo (top cluster), Nagoya (middle), and Osaka (bottom).⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ From their orbiting home, astronauts have a view unlike anything most of us will ever see! In the past 20 years, they have shot millions of photographs, and it is not just a hobby. It is an important scientific job, and one they need to be trained to do. For example, researchers have used nighttime imagery of lights to better understand human activity. The images can reveal population changes, urban development, energy use, economic activities, and changes in types of lighting. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Credit: NASA ⁣⁣ ⁣ #NASA #EarthViews #EarthPics #JapanPhotography #Glowing

🧿 Please accept this “Evil Eye” from @NASAHubble & go worry free into your week! ⁣ ⁣ This spiral galaxy, often referred to as the “Black Eye” or “Evil Eye” galaxy because of the dark band of dust that sweeps across one side of its bright nucleus, is located 17 million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenice (Berenice’s Hair). The gas in the outer regions of this galaxy and the gas in its inner regions are rotating in opposite directions, which might be related to a recent merger. ⁣ ⁣ Fun fact: new stars are forming in the region where the counter-rotating gases collide. ⁣ ⁣ Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt. ⁣ #Hubble #EvilEye #Spiral #Galactic #NASA

“You are inspiring us and you are reminding us of what is possible when we dream big and when we think big.”🚀🌟👨🏽‍🚀 In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, @VP Kamala Harris called @astrovicglover to congratulate him on his historic mission as the first African American to fly on a commercial spacecraft, and the first African American to fly on a long-term mission aboard the International Space Station (@iss). Credit: NASA #NASA #Space #FirstButNotTheLast #DreamBig #BHM