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‘Stunning was the word’: Astronauts snap amazing aurora photo from ISS during severe geomagnetic storm
NASA Space Technology NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared this photo of auroral displays, taken from the International Space Station, via X on Oct. 11, 2024.(Image credit: NASA/Don Pettit)The auroras were pretty special on Thursday night (Oct. 10) — especially if you got to see them from orbit.NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Matthew Dominick are in that very exclusive club, getting a bird's-eye view of the amazing auroral displays — which were supercharged by a recent solar storm — from the International Space Station (ISS). And the sight took the spaceflyers aback."Stunning was the word," Pettit wrote in a lengthy post on X on Friday (Oct. 11) that shared a photo of the celestial light show. "The sun goes burp and the atmosphere turns red. Spectacular not only from Earth but from orbit as well."The sun goes...
See a stunning 3D visualization of astronomy’s most beautiful object
NASA Space Technology This image is a mosaic of visible-light and infrared-light views of the same frame from the Pillars of Creation visualization. The three-dimensional model of the pillars created for the visualization sequence is alternately shown in the Hubble Space Telescope version (visible light) and the Webb Space Telescope version (infrared light). Greg Bacon (STScI), Ralf Crawford (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Christian Nieves (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Frank Summers (STScI), NASA's Universe of LearningThe Pillars of Creation are perhaps the most famous object in all of astronomy. Part of the Eagle Nebula, this vista was first captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, and has captivated the public ever since with its dramatic rising pillars of dust and gas that stretch several light-years high. The nebula has...
