Watch as auroras dance with the International Space Station
A new video shot by an astronaut circling the world from within the International Space Station shows the space laboratory speeding through green curtains of auroras dancing above Earth.
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams took the timelapse video while staring out one of the Space Station's window.
Astronauts and cosmonauts are sometimes treated to these light shows in orbit when particles from the sun slam into the planet's upper atmosphere, exciting neutral particles and causing them to glow.
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Auroras can also be seen from the ground, but people in space have a particularly amazing view of the northern and southern lights looking down from above.
Sometimes, during very powerful storms, the Space Station can even look like it's immersed within the curtains of light.
Some of the most amazing images of Earth from space have included auroras.
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Earth isn't the only planet with auroras.
Jupiter, for example, has extreme auroras caused by the planet's magnetic field and its interactions with the sun and at least one of its moons.
Mars and Saturn also appear to have auroras as well.
Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all things outer space. She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight and watched rockets launch to space from places around the United States. Miriam received her Master's degree in science, health and environmental reporting from New York University in 2012, and she originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee. Follow Miriam on Twitter at @mirikramer.
