A new video shot by an astronaut circling the world from within the International Space Station shows the space laboratory speeding through green curtains of auroras dancing above Earth.
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams took the timelapse video while staring out one of the Space Station’s window.
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Astronauts and cosmonauts are sometimes treated to these light shows in orbit when particles from the sun slam into the planet’s upper atmosphere, exciting neutral particles and causing them to glow.
Auroras can also be seen from the ground, but people in space have a particularly amazing view of the northern and southern lights looking down from above. …
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Watch as auroras dance with the International Space Station
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