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(Jonny Kim\/ISS via SWNS)<\/p>\n
By Dean Murray<\/p>\n
A spaceman has captured jaw-dropping views of aurora<\/a> from orbit.<\/p>\n NASA astronaut Jonny Kim shared the scene from aboard the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) as he viewed the phenomenon from 260 miles up.<\/p>\n His footage showed the Sun<\/a> setting behind Earth<\/a> and darkness allowing spectacular views of the aurora in our atmosphere, as well as city lights across the globe.<\/p>\n (Jonny Kim\/ISS via SWNS)<\/p>\n By Talker<\/p>\n He said on Wednesday, Dec. 3: “On Nov 13th, there was a solar particle event that resulted in beautiful blankets of aurora. You may have seen it.<\/p>\n “We had the most amazing view and our crew collectively took thousands of photos and dozens of time lapses. Here is one of those time lapses.”<\/p>\n Aurora is a natural display of colored lights in the sky, caused by charged particles from solar activity colliding with Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field near the poles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Jonny Kim\/ISS via SWNS) By Dean Murray A spaceman has captured jaw-dropping views of aurora from orbit. NASA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[10667,61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-180068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-dean-murray","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n