Earth — As seen through gamma-ray eyes

What if you were a space alien like me: what would the Earth look like with your gamma-ray vision?

NASA has produced a new image of your (usually) blue planet that depicts it radiating gamma rays.

Earth is constantly bombarded by particles from outer space, where my home planet peacefully orbits its double-star. But I digress.

The particles, in your English language, are called cosmic rays.

They hit the atmosphere and bounce off, back out into space.

That reflection is what these images show.

Dr. Dirk Petry of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland said, "If our eyes could see high-energy gamma rays, this is what the Earth would look like from space."

Earthlings — you cannot imagine how beautiful is is.