Astronauts take spectacular photos of auroras on Earth;  I wait

Astronauts take spectacular photos of auroras on Earth; I wait


John Cassada and Koichi Wakata, crew members of SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission, have published records on social networks




For almost six months on a mission in International Space Station (ISS)the astronaut NASA John Cassada and his partner Koichi Wakata have captured stunning images of the formation of the aurora in Earth’s atmosphere.

The photos were posted by the astronauts on their social networks this week. “Absolutely unrealistic,” wrote John Cassada in his Twitterafter sharing the image of the sunrise from a privileged view.

“Spectacular view of aurora, city lights, moon, sunrise and ISS solar arrays over Canada in one frame!” Koichi Wakata wrote in his Twitter post.

The beautiful images captured by the astronauts are the result of coronel mass ejection (CME), i.e. the explosion of solar plasma from an active region, or solar mass, that exploded on the Sun last Friday (24), according to information from the UK Space Weather, Met Office.

The astronauts arrived at the space station in October 2022, from the mission Crew-5 from the SpaceX. NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina are also part of this crew.

northern Lights

The colors of the northern lights shone in the European sky from Sunday night (26) until the early hours of Monday (27); the phenomenon has been observed in cities in Sweden, England and Germany.

The European Space Agency’s Space Weather Coordination Center recorded the phenomenon in the sky above Kiruna, Sweden.

The phenomenon occurred as a result of particles from the coronal mass ejection and the solar wind, which reached the Earth and caused a moderate-intensity geomagnetic storm.

Source: Terra

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