I have a problem with this video of the Northern Lights captured by astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the global Space Station.
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The Northern Lights were named after the Roman goddess for dawn.
Below, the Aurora Borealis appears to flow like an eerie river. You get a bird’s eye view of the occurrence.
Okay, I’m not really mad but more a little bit spoiled from all the space goodness we’ve been getting from astronaut Kelly as he spends 342 days along with cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko orbiting 220 miles above the Earth.
The latest pictures from ISS are the result of a Coronal Mass Ejection, which hit Earth on 15 August, triggering a G3-class geomagnetic storm around the Arctic Circle.
Here are a few other awe-inspiring photos of the aurora that Kelly has captured while aboard the ISS.
Earlier on, Kelly posted an image of a previous pass through the Aurora one the same day, noting that the display was particularly noticeable as the sun was very active.
The NASA astronaut shot the video of a shimmering aurora borealis from his perch aboard the global Space Station – and then shared it on his Twitter account on Saturday.
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The Northern Lights are caused when charged particles from the Sun enter the atmosphere and ionise, creating spectacular patterns and lights in the sky.
