If beautiful dancing ribbons of light can cause goosebumps for so many on Earth, just imagine how it would feel to witness them from space.
When the sun is ejecting charged particles from its corona and wind slams them into Earth’s upper atmosphere, the magical aurora is born. Everyone who gets to see it on Earth is absolutely mesmerized by its fluorescent dancing lights. Now imagine seeing this breathtaking spectacle of nature 400 kilometers above our planet!to be in space during the peak of auroral activity, but also had a chance to capture it in a time lapse.
“It’s just an incredible view out the window. And I realize that so many people are fascinated by the pictures that we get to take up here,” Dominick shared his. “The moon makes it way towards the horizon to set amongst red and green aurora. Felt so lucky to grab this shot,” he wrote in another post on his X account.The astronaut has been aboard ISS since March as a commander of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission.
The ISS is traveling at a speed of about 17,500 mph , which means that a timed exposure will blur the features of Earth. Also, it’s difficult to keep the stars as pinpoints in exposures greater than a quarter, or maybe half, a second.
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