[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: NASA, NOAA NGDC, Suomi-NPP, Earth Observatory; Data and Processing: Chris Elvidge and Robert Simmon]

[Past Your Eyes]

I’m surprised India is lit up so much.

[GeronL]

Prison guards in Pyongyang are the only with lights in North Korea

[cicero2k]

Take the hi res USA photo and import it into a decent editor to see the ground around the Grand Canyon, salt flats, Ely Nevada etc. It makes it even better.

[Ken H]

Why is Washington state so lit up?

[Marak]

What is the large grouping of lights in Sibera far north of India?

[Anila]

I never thought it is possible to see lights from the earth from a far.

[TChad]

Clicks through to a 3600x1800 jpeg. Very nice.

[dagogo redux]

This is astronomy, how?

[Hot Tabasco]

Does anyone know how much of the planet’s actual land mass is populated? My guess is that it’s only about 15%.....

[raybbr]

It's nice to see that things are still the same in North Korea...

[EternalVigilance]

Amazing.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Looks like the brightest metropolitan clusters are Cairo, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo, while the brightest regions are the NE USA and western Europe.