The Milky Way Meets the Sahara Desert
This photo shows a cluster of stars which is actually the outer edges of the Milky Way in the background. Meanwhile, from this angle of Earth’s orbit, astronauts noticed that the Earth had a sandy-orange hue. That’s because they were looking at Africa’s Sahara Desert from high above. The orange-y color became more pronounced when the sun’s rays hit the planet and reflected on the sand. But that’s not the only beautiful thing they saw while orbiting Earth.