NASA astronaut captures amazing aurora photo from space
"Absolutely unreal."
By Dean Murray via SWNS
An astronaut snapped a jaw-dropping picture of this week's aurora from space.
NASA's Josh Cassada captured the light display from 250 miles up, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Seemingly at a loss for words, the Minnesota-born physicist and U.S. Navy test pilot said on Feb. 28: "Absolutely unreal."
An aurora is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions around the Arctic and Antarctic.
Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
They are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind.
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