JAXA's Kimiya Yui Captures Rare ISS Aurora View After 5-Month Crew-11 Mission

1 articles · Updated · Space.com · May 28

Kimiya Yui shared a rare ISS photo showing station hardware, Earth’s glowing atmosphere and red-green auroras, taken from the Kibo module during his nearly five-month Crew-11 stay.
The view appeared only because the station was flying with its front and back reversed from the usual direction of travel, an orientation Yui said produces an uncommon perspective.
The image also reaches beyond Earth: Alpha Centauri appears in the upper right, alongside the Coalsack nebula, the Southern Cross and Eta Carinae.
Yui, who returned in January with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, called the composition one of his favorites for showing the universe’s depth from the window frame to deep space.

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