I've only linked to the Boston Globe's The Big Picture once before, when they had amazing pictures of Jupiter. Kottke talks about this feature a lot, and for good reason: the pictures in these sets, without exception, are gorgeous and stirring, And as I'm a huge lover of good photography, I should probably link to this more often.

The set that finally gets a second link is The Next President of the United States, on the eve of his inauguration. These are great photos and exciting times.

The Boston Globe has posted some breathtaking pictures of Jupiter and its moons from various NASA space missions dating back to 1979. A few of the pictures try to give a good sense of just how big Jupiter is, but I don't think the human mind can really comprehend it fully. One photo, for instance, shows the Great Red Spot, saying it's 20,000 km across. The diameter of the Earth is roughly 12,756 km, meaning you could almost fit two Earths side-by-side in it. The picture itself was taken from over two million km away. Crazy.