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Amazing pictures, especially liked that video on Earthrise with the real audio.

Also, that's a pretty nice site.

These are not selfies.
One could argue that we, as humans, are from and of Earth, and that by humans taking a photo of Earth, Earth is in fact taking a selfie. It's a narrower take on the concept of, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
The distinctive look of selfies is due the subject looking at a live image of themselves while taking the picture, which reveals different facial expressions than when they're looking at just a lens, or a photographer, or someone telling them to say "cheese". Self portraits in fine art have the same character -- they capture the expression of someone looking intently at their own reflection.
That's like saying a photo of my mom (by herself) that I took is a selfie of her.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

if you were in the picture (you and everyone else on that half the planet), you could call it a selfie.
a space shuttle is just an overblown selfie stick.