These are the spectacular photos from last night’s SpaceX rocket launch and landing

SpaceX has released a collection of high-resolution photos of last night's mission to resupply the International Space Station. The images, which were published to the company's Flickr account this morning, show the Falcon 9 rocket taking off and performing its landing in great detail. It was the second time the company has landed one of the Falcon 9 rocket boosters on a landing pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida — the other three landings were on a drone ship at sea.

Three of the photos (including the one seen above) were taken using long exposures, meaning the cameras' shutters were left open for a longer-than-normal period of time. Long exposures help show the full path that the Falcon 9 rocket took, from its ascent into space all the...