Our resident photographer, Daan Tant, publishes these photos for your pleasure. The Earth is a beautiful place. All photographs are Copyright 2008 Daan Tant, all rights reserved.

The Hubble Space Telescope has opened new windows into the Universe, providing portals where before there was simply empty space.

Here are the top 10 photos taken by Hubble, as voted on by the sorts of people who vote for those things. Think sheer, glorious beauty.

After millennia of staring up at the heavens, wondering, humans are now mapping it all in pictures, ultimate Kodak moments that provide vivid close-ups of pinwheels that used to be seen only as bright dots, glimpses inside ethereal stellar wombs, stunning clues to all that is and ever was.

This collection of space photos comes courtesy of SPACE.COM

We are all creatures living in the universe, and one persons neighbor is another persons alien.

This gallery contains pictures of life forms, identified and unidentified.

Planets, stars, nebulas, comets, satellites, asteroids, and maybe some junk that fell off the space shuttle; if an object is floating around out in space you may find a photo of it here.

After all, everything outside of a planetary atmosphere is a celestial body...

People of note can find a home here, preserved forever on the first truly global computer network ever devised... that we know of.

If you find another global network somewhere, clue us in. Thanks.

Crop circles from various sources, including those that \\\"authority\\\" has labeled \\\"hoax\\\" for whatever reason.

On Tuesday 21st August 2001 two new crop formations were reported near Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, UK. Both were very impressive looking and consisted of a large number of small \\\'pixels\\\', which when viewed from the air formed a recognisable shape - unlike many other crop formations.