Some fantastic photographs ( and a few other images ) taken of the planet Earth from non-planet-Earth locations show amazing beauty over at SyFy’s Blastr website.

Yeah, we know—space is the final frontier. But sometimes the best part of space is looking back over our shoulder at the planet we left behind.

Some these are stunning because of how crisp and clear our big, blue marble looks as we hover above it. Others are stunning, even though they seem to be only distant dots, because it takes our breath away that we made it that far away from home.

via 16 stunning images of Earth seen from space and other planets | Blastr.