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An amazing video of nighttime views from the space station

Photographs taken from the International Space Station and assembled in this video show nighttime views of our planet.

People keep making these videos from ISS photography, and we keep loving them. Here鈥檚 the latest, assembled by photographer to a track by John Murphy (from the movie soundtrack for) it鈥檚 a beautiful tour of nighttime passes of the Space Station over our planet. Stars, city lights, airglow, aurorae鈥 it鈥檚 nothing you haven鈥檛 seen before, but everything worth seeing again. Watch it.

Video: Knate Myers. All images courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Via the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.

Jason Major is a graphic artist from聽Rhode Island聽now living and working in聽Dallas, Texas. He writes about astronomy and space exploration on his blog聽Lights In The Dark, on Universe Today and also onDiscovery听狈别飞蝉.

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