Vine Video Of Auroras From Space Is Too Hypnotizing For Words

By pars3c - July 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
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Looks like NASA's Reid Wiseman is at it again. The prolific social-media-posting astronaut on the International Space Station just put up this Vine video showing auroras shining over Australia. Hard to believe this was captured from Earth orbit.

It seems the astronaut is quite fascinated by these lights, which are produced when particles from the sun move along magnetic field lines around our planet and "excite" molecules high in the atmosphere. Previously, Wiseman posted another Vine

video of auroras while constellation Orion rose in the background

.

Wiseman is also among those crew members

posting pictures of Tropical Storm Arthur

and participating in friendly head

shave-offs for the World Cup

(Wiseman was among those who lost.) And

he's a pretty adept photographer, too

.

You can follow the many updates from space on

Reid Wiseman's Twitter feed

. He's just one of six crew members with Expedition 40.