Need a dose of perspective? This should do it.

Need a dose of perspective? Ideas for a color palette or images for a project (many government supplied images are copyright-free)? Check out the Astronomy Picture of the Day for an amazing array of natural design, color, and imagery.

For Earth at Night

For The View from Everest

For a Solar Eruption

Above: Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field from Planck. Copyright ESA/Planck; Acknowledgement: M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, CNRS – IAS, U. Paris-XI