Earlier this week, NASA released amazing photographs, taken by astronauts aboard the orbiting International Space Station (ISS). Check it out!

High above the Indian Ocean, astronauts captured this image of the Aurora Australis and surrounding airglow in the Earth’s atmosphere as the ISS orbits quickly past. (NASA/JSC)

Ice floes clumping in Russia’s Sea of Okhotsk (NASA/JSC)

Ahile above the Pacific Ocean on may 11, 2009, ISS astronauts shot this photo of a waning gibbous moon, slightly distorted, seen through the Earth’s atmosphere. (NASA/JSC)

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