Peering out of the windows of the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson.

Instead, the view looks down from the International Space Station as it passed over the United States along the northern Gulf Coast on October 29.

the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster complex IC 1396, in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus

the Andromeda Galaxy (aka M31) at ultraviolet wavelengths