Chris Hadfield Is Publishing A Book Of The Incredible Pictures He Took From Space

Your coffee table just got a whole heap more awesome.

So, this is incredible.

Havana to Washington, D.C.

Chris Hadfield / NASA

Chris Hadfield took 45,000 photos while he was in space.

Manhattan awake, and asleep.

Chris Hadfield / NASA

He told Quartz that he'd been struck by the fact that a lot of people on social media had asked him to take pictures of their hometowns.

Detroit, Michigan (right), and Windsor, Ontario.

Chris Hadfield / NASA

He told the site: “To me that was delightful. At first I thought how narcissistic. But then when I thought about it, it struck me for two different reasons: people are proud of where they are from."

Richat Structure in Mauritania.

Chris Hadfield / NASA

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