San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

Courtesy NASA Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.

You've likely seen many a photograph of the Earth from space, taken by a satellite spinning high above us. But what if you got the chance to snap your own photo of the planet we all call home?

That's what these photos are for the people who took them, the astronauts living on the International Space Station, which orbits our planet at a distance of roughly 220 miles above the Earth's surface.

For the past decade, astronauts on missions to the ISS have taken their own personal photos, many of which have been posted to the astronauts' own social media accounts and on NASA's websites. But to date, their photos hadn't been published in an easily accessible online archive where anyone could find them.

Until now. Cities at Night was set up by volunteers from several nations' space agencies and citizens around the world as a place where the photos can be sorted and displayed on a map, pinpointed to the location captured in each snapshot, shown here:

The photos capture nearly every major city on Earth – every place from St. Louis to Munich to Melbourne, even places from Basra, Iraq, to Bismarck, North Dakota. We've selected a handful of them to show above, but to see the full set visit the Cities at Night website.