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Inexperienced and purple shows from the southern lights (aurora australis) seem above the Earth, seen from the orbiting Worldwide Area Station, south of Australia, on April 21, 2025.
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Lightning flashes amongst cloud formations above Indonesia, seen on June 22, 2025.
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The Massive Magellanic Cloud seems amongst a starry backdrop above Earth’s atmospheric glow on this long-duration {photograph} from the Worldwide Area Station because it orbited 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico on November 26, 2024.
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Swirling formations within the shallow sea flooring, seen within the Bahamas on October 20, 2024
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Thrusters fireplace whereas purple and inexperienced navigation lights shine from the Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft because it approaches the ISS on September 29, 2024, carrying 4 new crew members.
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The differing colours of Utah’s Nice Salt Lake, seen on August 3, 2025. Variations within the salinity of the lake water, which is separated roughly in half by a causeway, account for the variations in coloration.
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Moonrise over the Mediterranean, seen on Might 17, 2025
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The Milky Manner seems past Earth’s horizon on this {photograph} captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit utilizing a digicam with low mild and lengthy period settings, identified a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft on January 29, 2025. The Worldwide Area Station was orbiting 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile simply earlier than dawn.
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Huge wildfires in central Australia, seen by means of smoke and haze at night time, on Might 25, 2025
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A ribbon-like aurora lights up the sky on April 20, 2025, south of Australia.
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Sparse clouds go above sand dunes within the United Arab Emirates, seen on June 10, 2025.
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The Milky Manner seems within the vastness of house behind the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, docked to the Concord module’s space-facing port on the Worldwide Area Station on June 30, 2024.
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This long-duration {photograph} taken from the ISS because it orbited 259 miles above the Andaman Sea reveals town lights of Southeast Asia and the everyday inexperienced lights of the fishing boats beneath Earth’s atmospheric glow on March 26, 2025.
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A strong bolt of lightning casts shadows and illuminates storm clouds from inside, over China, seen on July 3, 2025.
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The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, carrying greater than 6,000 kilos of science, provides, and {hardware}, approaches the ISS above the Atlantic Ocean on November 5, 2024.
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Peering by means of the window of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, the NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this picture of the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft because the lights of a vivid inexperienced and pink aurora swirled by means of Earth’s environment above the Indian Ocean on October 7, 2024.
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On July 3, 2025, the NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this superb picture of a sprite, a not often photographed climate phenomenon, because the ISS handed above a storm over Mexico. Ayers wrote: “Sprites are TLEs, or Transient Luminous Occasions, that occur above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical exercise within the thunderstorms beneath.”
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The solar seems alongside Earth’s horizon, seen above the southern Pacific Ocean on October 7, 2024.
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Lightning illuminates a storm cloud over Hong Kong, seen at night time on Might 3, 2025.
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Low daylight is seen throughout dunes within the Sahara Desert on December 7, 2024.
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A inexperienced and pink aurora, seen south of Australia on October 7, 2024
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The brand new moon units behind Earth’s colourful however dimming environment on this long-duration {photograph} taken by the NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick with a digicam programmed for prime sensitivity on September 4, 2024.
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A protracted-exposure view of the lights of Earth and the celebrities above, seen on September 29, 2024
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Lightning strikes in a small storm cloud above Thailand, seen on October 27, 2024.
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Lights streak previous, seen in a long-exposure picture because the ISS passes over the American Midwest on October 26, 2024.
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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), roughly 44 million miles away from Earth on this photograph, is seen from the ISS on September 28, 2024.
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An aurora glows past docked spacecraft and elements of the Worldwide Area Station on October 10, 2024.
