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Nile River at night.

Earthly eyeball; International Space Station with a 360 degree view.

OK, this is kind of out there and caters to your inner Uber-Geek. Nadir view of Transient Luminous Events (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning. This clip real time is about 6 seconds over the Amazon basin and shows a number of TLE displays from Sprites to blue jets from a

Aurora seen today from International Space Station while orbit was passing between Australia and Antartrica; photographer Jannicke Mikkelsen now on the private FRAM2 space mission will be having an even better view in their polar orbit.

Green vaporous turbulence; tonight’s show of aurora from International Space Station

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Changes in attitude, changes in latitude: International Space Station We rotated 180 degrees and flew backwards for yesterday’s Soyuz docking. This is a bit long but keep watching for the surprise in the middle.

Soap film in 0g; lots of techno-dynamics here displayed with a Matisse like pallette.

Formation flying; Starlink satellites tracing parallel lines in the sky. Thanks to Babak Tafreshi for assembling this clip from timelapse images.

Orbital Trompe-l'œil (French for “fool the eye”, a term I borrowed from artful painting now applied to space).

Deorbital cremation; Cygnus cargo vehicle on Canada Arm moving to release position for a fiery return to Earth.

“Two Steppin on the Moon”; Country Western singer Josh Turner Josh Turner visited Houston Mission Control and sang us this song. Suni Williams and I decided to give it a try while Butch Wilmore filmed the effort. Here is “Two Steppin in Space”. Big thanks to Josh Turner

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Mother Earth, I am coming home.

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