Rare NASA image captures Saturn's rings, Earth from 898 million miles away

I think I can see my house.

NASA have released a series of incredible images taken this month by the Cassini spacecraft, including this one which captures the rings of Saturn - and the Earth, some 898 million miles (1.44bn kilometres) in the distance.

Yes, that bright dot in the centre right of the shot is you.

And me.

And everybody we know.

And everybody who ever lived, and everything that our species has ever done or dreamed.

Earth "appears as a blue dot at center right; the moon can be seen as a fainter protrusion off its right side," according to a NASA statement.

"The other bright dots nearby are stars."

(A second picture, below, helpfully picks out both the Earth and the moon)

The main picture also show sthe dark side of Saturn and its main rings.

This is only the third time ever that Earth has been imaged from the outer solar system, NASA said.

The picture was taken on July 19 by the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft at a distance of approximately 753,000 miles (1.212 million kilometres) from Saturn, and approximately 898.414 million miles (1.445858 billion kilometres) from Earth.

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The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency

Find out more about it here and here