The 20 Most Jaw-Dropping Space Photos

Auroras

An amazing display of auroras circling the Earth's upper atmosphere's orange glow. During his 196-day tenure on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy photographed this vivid scene.

Source: NASA

The Gulf of St. Lawrence's ice eddies

Although it can be challenging to follow the oceans in space, satellites can pinpoint their movements thanks to the sea ice's swirling patterns. This view of sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the exquisite patterns it is creating around Anticosti Island in Quebec, Canada, was taken by NASA's Aqua satellite.

Credits: NASA Earth Observatory, MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, Joshua Stevens-16 data from the NOAA-NASA GOES-R Mission.