NASA astronaut captures aurora lights from space

Check out this timelapse video of the auroras from space that was captured by NASA astronaut Jonny Kim.

NASA astronaut Jonathan Yong “Jonny” Kim captured an aurora from space in a time-lapse video shared earlier this week.

Posted to the social media platform X on Friday, the clip shows the Earth from high above the night sky, with aurora lights dancing over southeast Asia and Australia.

A green haze appears halfway through the video, with red and purple coming into view soon after.

The video has garnered almost 600,000 views and hundreds of reposts.

“I caught my first aurora,” Kim wrote on X.

“After seeing the result, I told (fellow astronaut Nichole Ayers) this felt like fishing. Prepping the camera, the angle, the settings, the mount, then setting your timer and coming back to hope you got a catch. And after catching my first fish, I think I’m hooked,” his post reads.

Kim also thanked Ayers, for showing him how to film a time-lapse. Ayers frequently posts photos and videos of auroras from space on her X account.

Kim was appointed a NASA astronaut in 2017. He arrived in space for his first mission to the International Space Station earlier this year aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that launched on April 8.

Prior to his space career, Kim has held various U.S. military positions beginning in 2002.