Star Trails and Earth City Lights | International Space Station

Star Trails and Earth City Lights | International Space Station

Expedition 74 Flight Engineer and NASA Astronaut Chris Williams aboard the International Space Station shared this photo. Star trails and city lights streak by in this long-duration photograph—exposed for nearly nine-and-a-half minutes—taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above the Middle East. In the upper foreground is the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's HTV-X1 cargo craft, berthed to the Harmony module’s Earth-facing port, with the Canadarm2 robotic arm attached to a portable data grapple fixture in front. At bottom right is a portion of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo craft. 

Follow Expedition 74:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 74 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Sergei Mikaev

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Chris Williams

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.

Credit: NASA/Chris Williams
Release Date: Feb. 19, 2026

#NASA #Space #ISS #Science #Earth #MiddleEast #HTV-X1CargoSpacecraft #CygnusXLCargoSpacecraft #Astronauts #ChrisWilliams #AstronautPhotography #Cosmonauts #Russia #Россия #Roscosmos #Роскосмос #HumanSpaceflight #InternationalCooperation #Expedition74 #JSC #UnitedStates #STEM #Education