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This is a composite image of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band images show the bright and complex signature of the...
The faint glow of an aurora is seen over Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday,...
The faint glow of an aurora is seen over Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday,...
The faint glow of an aurora is seen over Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday,...
iss072e159172 (Oct. 30, 2024) --- The aurora borealis blankets the Earth in this photograph from the International...
iss072e159516 (Oct. 30, 2024) --- The aurora borealis blankets the Earth in this photograph from the International...
This photograph of aurora borealis, northern aurora, was taken during the Spacelab-J (SL-J) mission (STS-47). People...
This photograph of aurora borealis, northern aurora, was taken during the Spacelab-J (SL-J) mission (STS-47). People...
iss072e709711 (March 2, 2025) --- The aurora borealis crowns Earth's horizon with the city lights of Canada dotting...
iss072e188141 (Nov. 15, 2024) --- A bright green aurora borealis streams above Earth's surface as the International...
iss072e451060 (Jan. 4, 2025) --- A red and green aurora borealis shimmers in this photograph from the International...
iss072e820937 (March 12, 2025) --- Clouds swirl over the Gulf of Alaska and underneath the aurora borealis...
ISS006-E-18372 (January 2003) --- The Aurora Borealis or “northern lights” and the Manicouagan Impact...
ISS043e059141 (03/26/2015) --- Members of Expedition 43 on the International Space Station captured this contrasting...
ISS029-E-012564 (29 Sept. 2011) --- The Midwestern United States at night with Aurora Borealis is featured in this...
This image, taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft, shows the darkside of Jupiter, the part not illuminated by sunlight....
While orbiting 216 nautical miles (400 km) above earth, astronauts and cosmonauts had this view of aurora borealis...
ISS044E012986 (07/13/2015) --- This Night Earth Observation of an Aurora Borealis was captured by NASA astronaut...
ISS039-E-009160 (2 April 2014) --- This nighttime view featuring the aurora borealis, the moon and Moscow was...
iss030e119777 (3/3/2012) --- A view of the night earth taken aboard the International Space Station (ISS) showing an...
iss053e023965 (Sept. 15, 2017) --- The spectacular aurora borealis, or the “northern lights,” over Canada is sighted...
ISS042E033478 (12/09/2014) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this aurora...
ISS046e015599 (01/20/2016) --- A brilliant and vivid Aurora Borealis illuminates the Earth’s northern hemisphere on...
Earth observation taken by the Expedition 35 crew aboard the ISS. View of Aurora Borealis, an orbital sunrise and...