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In January, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station sent the first real-time tweets from space. Soon after, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi began tweeting stunning photographs of the view from above back to Earth. Now that Soichi has returned home, NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock has continued live-tweeting photos from the ISS. We’ve collected some of the most breathtaking images tweeted from space in the slideshow below. From Hurricane Earl to a twinkling Manhattan, a shimmering Aurora Borealis to a smoking volcano, the images present a spectacular view of Earth.