What seems
like a beautiful view contains several astronomical objects in this view from
the International Space Station (ISS).
Shining
like a bright beacon is a thin crescent Moon behind a green-tinged veil of the
aurora borealis, or northern lights.
Just to the
lower right of the moon is a clutch of stars known as the Beehive Cluster, or
Praesepe, in the constellation Cancer, and to the right of that is the planet
Saturn.
The Earth,
meanwhile, sports some shining lights of its own. The ISS was flying above
Scandinavia when this image was taken, allowing city lights to pierce the black
of night.
-- SPACE.com Staff
Credit: NASA/JSC.
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