Simple pleasures: APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day

[Chuck Dye]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

I am amazed at how many folks I tell about this site don't already know of it.

[stevelyn]

That is so cool.

[zahc]

It's all photoshopped anyway.

[Tuco]

It's all photoshopped anyway.

Hollywood soundstage.

[seeker_two]

Hollywood soundstage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One

[Devonai]

All of NASA's photos are in the public domain, too, in case you want to put one on the cover of your novel or something.

[Chuck Dye]

Check the link "Specific rights apply."

About image permissions:

All the images on the APOD page are credited to the owner or institution where they originated. Some of the images are copyrighted and to use these pictures publicly or commercially one must write to the owners for permission. For the copyrighted images, the copyright owner is identified in the APOD credit line (please see the caption under the image), along with a hyperlink to the owner's location. NASA images are in the public domain, official guidelines for their use can be found here. For images credited to other owners/institutions, please contact them directly for copyright and permissions questions.

Neither NASA nor APOD can grant permission to use copyrighted images. For use of these images, please write to the copyright owners.

Not all the APOD images are NASA's.

[Devonai]

Ah, thank you for mentioning this caveat.  I did research the image I used, paranoid as I am about lawsuits and whatnot.