Stellar Sights | International Space Station

Stellar Sights | International Space Station

The Large Magellanic Cloud among a starry backdrop above Earth's atmospheric glow highlights this long duration photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico.

The non-periodic Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is pictured seemingly above Earth's atmosphere though it was actually about 235 million miles away and heading for a trip around the Sun. The International Space Station was orbiting 272 miles above the southern Atlantic Ocean in between the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands at the time of this photograph. 

The non-periodic Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), or the "Great Comet of 2025," is pictured seemingly above Earth's atmosphere though it was actually about 87 million miles away and five days past its closest approach, or perihelion, to the Sun. The International Space Station was orbiting 261 miles above Kazakhstan at the time of this photograph.

An aurora shimmers and dances above the city lights of Canada in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above Vancouver, British Columbia, about 1:55 a.m. local time.

Follow Expedition 73:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA/JSC/Don Pettit
Image Dates: October 2024-January 2025, 2025

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