Pictures from space! Our image of the day

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Astronauts treated to mesmerizing aurora displays



(Image credit: NASA/ Shane Kimbrough)

Tuesday, August 10, 2021: Astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station get to enjoy some really unique views. The sightings of aurora australis (the southern lights) and aurora borealis (the northern lights) are very rare for Earth-bound humans. But the occupants of the orbital outpost get treated to those mesmerizing displays fairly regularly.

On Monday, August 9, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough shared a photograph of auroras captured from the International Space Station over the weekend.

“Magical aurora sightings this weekend from @Space_Station,” Kimbrough tweeted. “The white dots on the bottom half of the pic are stars – millions of them!”

Auroras, also called polar lights, occur in the sky at high latitudes around the Arctic and Antarctica as a result of the interaction between Earth’s magnetosphere and solar wind, charged particles emitted by the sun during solar flares and eruptions. -- Tereza Pultarova

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[AZ8theist]

1. WAIT A MINUTE!!!

THAT'S THE EARTH???

Sure doesn't look flat to me!

[niyad]

2. Fake, of course. All such images are fake. What we see as space is nothing but a

backdrop. This, according to a conversation relayed to me recently. Knew that flat--earthers exist, but had no idea of the depth of their delusion.

[niyad]

3. Wayyyy cool!

[abqtommy]

4. The Aurora Borealis is nature's lightshow to accompany nature's Music Of The Spheres.