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🌟 Glowing with the flow The ISS was orbiting about 263 miles above Romania when this photograph was snapped of the city lights of Sweden and Finland with an aurora above the Earth's horizon. The dark area in between the two Scandinavian nations is the Baltic Sea. Did you know? Ancient Assyrian stone tablets represent the oldest known reports of auroras, dating to more than 2,500 years ago. The descriptions, written in cuneiform, were found on three stone tablets, dating from 655 B.C. to 679 B.C. 🌌Who would you want to see this magical sky with? Tag ‘em below! Credit: roscosmosofficial #NASA #CityLights #Earth #Aurora #Sweden #Finland #ISS #Views #NaturalBeauty #BucketList

The @SpaceX #CrewDragon spacecraft, with its two lit crew windows, is pictured docked to the Harmony module's international docking adapter. https://t.co/R6krMnHdlR

Scientists with the Oceans Melting Greenland mission have discovered that glaciers in Greenland’s deep fjords account for nearly half of all ice loss (as previously monitored by satellites): https://t.co/a0Ky6baRz7 https://t.co/u2juLaVpgG

Surface of Asteroid Bennu

The Expedition 64 crew is gearing up for the first spacewalk of 2021 on Wednesday while continuing science and maintenance on the station. Pictured, NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Victor Glover works on U.S. spacesuit maintenance inside the Quest airlock.

The Exp 64 crew is gearing up for the first spacewalk of 2021 on Wednesday while continuing science and maintenance aboard the station. More... https://t.co/pDgOcNxCTC https://t.co/LeA5ipPmUm

With @BoeingSpace, we are now targeting launch of the #Starliner spacecraft's second uncrewed flight test for March 25. This test is a critical milestone on the company's path to fly missions to the @Space_Station through our @Commercial_Crew program: https://t.co/XLTY7MqzBv https://t.co/4bhSamt9FY

Giddy-up! 🐎 Soar through an infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula in this #HubbleClassic visualization. This nebula is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud, which is located about 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Orion: https://t.co/EymwNYUFmS https://t.co/sRynYcYOJc

This #BurnsDay, I'm singing Auld Lang Syne for recent science targets with "Scottish" names. "French" sites are keeping me très occupée, and will for many sols to come. My team nicknames all the spots I visit, and each quadrant has a different theme. Blog: https://t.co/zxs5zQETrv https://t.co/t8cx9QzBCm

Taken in Punakaki 30 seconds from my Air BnB!

B1051 receives a seafarer's welcome as it returns to Port Canaveral yesterday evening

Near and Far

Transporter-1 lifts off SLC-40 with a record-breaking number of satellites

On this day in 1986, Voyager 2 took two images of Titania, the largest satellite of Uranus. This is a composite of those two images and was the highest-resolution picture of Titania returned by Voyager 2. https://t.co/ZsNce9yGBb

ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week: This planetary nebula acts as an interstellar distributor. It sends its elements, particularly the heavier metal ones produced inside a star, into the interstellar medium helping to form other stars 🔗 https://t.co/3QiyPhsEv6 https://t.co/rBh7kfhCdR