There’s nothing quite as remarkable as photos of space. Most likely, the vast majority of people will never experience it first hand, so the extraordinary photos NASA posts to their website daily serve as a window into the unknown.

Continue on to check out eight incredible interstellar images.

The Spitzer Space Telescope captured this image of the dwarf star the TRAPPIST-1 and its seven Earth-sized orbiting planets.

This up close and personal photo of Jupiter’s surface is stunning.

This galaxy is more than 200 million light-years away.

The lights from Earth are a visible atmospheric glow.

23 million lightyears away this galaxy shows off spectacular colors.

This spiral galaxy is located in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices, named after Queen Bernice II of Egypt.

The image captured new revealed infant stars.

From the International Space Station, an astronaut captures a photo of a waxing crescent moon appearing 260 miles above Algeria.