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By Emily Lakdawalla

Pretty picture: Fly through the aurora

Apr. 5, 2010 | 14:37 PDT | 21:37 UTC

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Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi is an awesome photographer. This image is going straight into the "Best of 2010" collection.

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Flying through the aurora
Credit: NASA / Soichi Noguchi

Noguchi took this photo from his berth aboard the International Space Station on April 5, 2010, as the Station flew through Earth's aurora at 28,000 kilometers per hour. A geomagnetic storm was exciting an unusual level of auroral activity at the time. A Russian Progress module is visible docked to the Station in the middle ground. The photo appeared on Noguchi's Twitter feed, followed at the time by 174,000 people.

Phil Plait has a little more information on what we can see in the photo.

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