NASA Astronaut's jaw-dropping video of aurora from space will leave you speechless!

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a mesmerizing glimpse of Aurora captured from space. Pettit, who is currently serving as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 72 crew dropped a breathtaking view of the Aurora from the International Space Station (ISS).
Pettit dropped the video on Twitter and captioned it, “Flying over aurora; intensely green.”
Check out the video here.

The video has garnered the attention of netizens very shortly. The video posted on January 6 at 12:01 PM on Twitter has amassed over 130.4K views.
Taken away by the marvellous beauty of Aurora from the space station, an X user commented, “seeing fireworks from above is nice but seeing the aurora from above is out of this world.”
A netizen commented, "Color depicts intensity levels of waves of energy coming in from space shielded by earths magnetosphere great this beautiful dance of light in the sky."
"the aurora's green glow looks unreal from above. pure magic!" one user wrote. Another penned, "It’s beautiful. Thanks for sharing this."
An X user commented, "Wild. Thank you for sharing with us on the other side."
Another wrote, "wow it’s so magical."
One comment reads, "Definitely one of the coolest things to witness. Nature is incredible!"
One X user said, "Never seen them from that side! Too cool."
Another said, "Pettit again with the best ISS content."
An X user commented, “If you close your eyes while flying through regions like this, are you able to observe an increase in the frequency of "scintillations" or apparent flashes of light induced by high energy protons traversing the retina and exciting it directly?”
“Wow, truly amazing! Thank you for sharing! Hope to talk with you on my Ham Radio one day while you flying around the Earth in the International Space Station. 73’s,” another user wrote.

American astronaut and chemical engineer Donald R. Pettit is serving as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the orbiting laboratory, where he will spend approximately 6 months conducting science experiments and maintaining the space station. He is accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. He went to the ISS in the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft in September, 2024.
What is aurora?
An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, seen in high-latitude regions near the Arctic and Antarctic. This phenomenon occurs when charged particles from the Sun, carried by the solar wind, interact with Earth's magnetic field and collide with gases in the atmosphere. This reaction causes vibrant colors like green, purple, red, and blue to illuminate the night sky.
(Pic courtesy: Screen grab from Don Pettit/ X)