NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, aboard the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, shared an image of the ‘aurora’ on Sunday.
In a post on social media platform SpaceX, the US Navy test pilot and astronaut posted a photo of the moon with the caption, “The red and green colors from the aurora, as well as city lights, reflect off the service module solar arrays, with the Milky Way core behind the space station.” He added, “The solar arrays and service module are bathed in a light horizon blue from the sun rising behind the camera.”
Giving technical details of this amazing shot, Matthew Dominic wrote, “Single image taken from timelapse (will post timelapse video soon). 15mm, T1.8, 1.6s, ISO 6400, noise free.”
The photo is creating a stir on social media as netizens are in a frenzy after seeing the latest picture. One user commented, “Another one for the books!” Another user commented, “I like how it reverses the star trails. The stars are dots and the Earth is stripes. Excited by your work of changing what we see from space!”
A third user added, “Beauty we haven’t seen since the Cupola came out… all because we didn’t have a real photographer. Brilliant, Matthew, brilliant. That’s why the Everyday Astronaut flight was chosen… we get to see it all through an artist’s eyes.”
Surprised by the picture, a user tweeted, “Wow, how often do you get to see a view like this from the space station?”
The post comes a day after Matthew Dominic shared a short timelapse video showing the aurora — different layers of the atmosphere in green and orange — over the San Francisco Bay Area and the Milky Way core from space.
This photo follows a series of photos taken recently from the International Space Station (ISS). The overexposed city lights in the foreground add a touch of sparkle to the mesmerizing image of the aurora. The most recent viral photo has garnered over 1.94 lakh views and over 513,000 likes in just a few hours.
