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A View From the Space Station
This picture of Comet Lovejoy (the comet that just had a close encounter with the Sun) near the Earth’s horizon was taken on 21 December by Dan Burbank aboard the International Space Station. Image...
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Western Europe At Night
With bits of the International Space Station appearing in the foreground, this night time panorama shows city lights from Belgium and the Netherlands at bottom center, Great Britan partially obscured...
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The East Coast At Night
This photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States was taken from the International Space Station on 6 February, 2012. Large metropolitan areas and other easily recognizable sites from...
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The British Isles from Orbit
This view from the International Space Station looks northeastward toward the night lights of the cities of Ireland in the foreground and the United Kingdom in the back and to the right. Farther east,...
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Edoardo Arnaldi Arrives at the ISS
In the picture above the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 Edoardo Arnaldi (ATV-3) is seen on approach to the International Space Station for docking. The unmanned cargo spacecraft...
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A 51st Anniversary
51 years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human to see planet Earth from space. “The sky is very dark; the Earth is bluish. Everything is seen very clearly”. The...
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And Now for Something Completely Different …
The SpaceX Dragon cargo vessel was securely bolted to the Harmony module of the International Space Station at 1602 UTC today. Image Credit: NASA
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Transit of Venus …
… as seen from the International Space Station this week.Image Credit: NASA
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Aurora Borealis
Astronaut Mike Hopkins aboard the International Space Station made this picture of the northern lights on 9 October, 2013. The northern lights are caused by collisions between fast-moving electronsfrom...
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That’s No Moon. It’s a Space Station!
Actually, it’s both. This snapshot shows the moon rising as the International Space Station moves across the foreground. Image Credit: NASA
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Mintaka, Alnilam, and Alnitak
Those are the names of the stars in Orion’s belt, and they can be seen peeking through Earth’s atmosphere in this picture made from the International Space Station by astronaut Reid Wiseman. Orion’s...
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Sunrise from the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted this picture to Twitter. Image Credit: NASA
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Aurora and Sunrise
As the International Space Station flies along the east coast of North America, the Aurora Borealis and sunrise converge. Video Credit: NASA
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Aurora As Seen From the ISS
Astronaut Scott Kelly took this picture of Earth’s aurora from the International Space Station last Saturday. Image Credit: NASA
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Aurora As Seen From the ISS
Astronauts on board the ISS snapped this picture looking over the Pacific Northwest on 20 January. Image Credit: NASA
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And Now for Something Completely Different …
The SpaceX Dragon cargo vessel was securely bolted to the Harmony module of the International Space Station at 1602 UTC today. Image Credit: NASA
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Auroras in UHD
This was posted by NASA as a UHD 4k video. Click on the arrows in the lower right corner to embiggen it and use your ESC key to exit full screen mode. Video Credit: NASA
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Stargazing From Orbit
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this photo looking across the Pacific Ocean back in August, 2015. Some of the setting stars can be seen though the glow of the atmosphere....
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A Top View of Earth’s Aurora
This time-lapse video of the Earth’s aurora was taken from the International Space Station on 25 June. Video Credit: NASA
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