# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B3-ZqC9lXhP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11734344-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/756bcbcd7c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-10-23T21:00:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

A trail of night lights ✨ ✨ ✨  This image compiles over 400 time-lapse photos taken by astro_christina from the International Space Station (ISS), as the station traveled from Namibia toward the Red Sea on July 5, 2019.⁣
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Here, stationary features like cities appear as pale yellow-white dotted streaks; many of the thinner dotted lines with darker orange hues are seasonal fires burning. Northward, you can see bright white lightning flashes from thunderstorms and above the horizon, a faint green-yellow tracing of the upper atmosphere known as airglow.⁣
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Image Credit: NASA⁣
Caption: Andrea Meado, Jacobs Technology⁣
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#startrails #stars #space #airglow #timelapse #nasa⁣

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airglow, nasa, timelapse, space, startrails, stars

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