Watch as auroras dance with the International Space Station

Jul 27 2016 by Mashable

 

A new video shot by an astronaut circling the world from within the International Space Station shows the space laboratory speeding through green curtains of auroras dancing above Earth.

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams took the timelapse video while staring out one of the Space Station's window.

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