Amazing video footage shows the brilliant green stream of wispy light covering thousands of miles across our planet, with Boeing's Starliner capsule in the foreground, as captured by NASA's Matthew Dominick aboard the ISS.
An aurora is created by disturbances in Earth's magnetosphere due to a flow of particles from the sun, with the color display depending on the molecules the charged particles interact with - such as oxygen (green), nitrogen (pink and red), and hydrogen/helium (blue and purple).
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