Just to put things into perspective, this is earth in a big solar flare. Earth and sun are roughly to scale. Yes it is indeed the pale blue dot in the middle.
More information about the flare here
The International Space Station casts a shadow on the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Crescent Earth looking west over the Atlantic from a distance of about 10,000 miles. Automatic Hasselblad transparency, Apollo 4 (unmanned), November 9, 1967
Stratocumulus Clouds 4,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean: attributed to Ronald Evans, Apollo 17, by Michael Light
This photo was the world’s first view of Earth taken near the moon. It was snapped by the U.S. Lunar Orbiter I on August 23, 1966, when the spacecraft was just about to pass behind the moon on its 16th orbit.













