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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...