Brilliance at Night: The Americas in Darkness Wall Art Framed Canvas NGC 2023 is classified as

NGC 2023 is classified as a reflection nebula

000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft

The bright smudges are dusty cocoons containing massive embryonic stars

The purple tone of the foreground rocks has been seen in other rocks where Curiosity's Chemical and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument has detected hematite

This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

Brilliance at Night: The Americas in Darkness Wall Art Framed Canvas NGC 2023 is classified asThis image of North and South America at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The new data was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet. For more such images of our planet, read Earth at Night, NASA's latest ebook that features dazzling photographs and images from space of Earths nightlights. For nearly 25 years, satellite images of