If you need an excuse to love the planet, just hang around NASA’s site for a while — the images they post make it kind of hard not to feel awed about the Earth. Here’s the International Space Station against a background of Aurora Australis, the Southern Lights. (It is not, as we first thought, an at-at dancing at a rave.)
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