(CNN) You don't have to be down on Earth to comprehend the destructive power of Hurricane Dorian.

Just ask NASA astronaut Nick Hague.

He took this dramatic photo of Dorian from the safety of his perch inside the International Space Station and shared it on Twitter earlier this week. The angle of the photo allows you to peer directly down into the monster storm's eye.

"You can feel the power of the storm when you stare into its eye from above," Hague wrote in the post. "Stay safe everyone!"

Dorian was a Category 5 storm when it made landfall in the Bahamas over the weekend. It stalled out and decimated portions of the country's northern islands before moving slowly moving north toward the southeast US coast. It's now a Category 2 storm that's skirting the coasts of Florida and Georgia.

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