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Astronaut captures aurora magic from the ISS | Space photo of the day for May 28, 2026

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A view captured by JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui from aboard the ISS. (Image credit: Kimiya Yui/JAXA) An astronaut captured a view from the International Space Station (ISS) that will take your breath away. Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ) snapped this photo from a window aboard the ISS, capturing a piece of the station itself, a sliver of Earth's atmosphere , and a peek out at the cosmos beyond. What is it? In January, Yui returned from space after completing the nearly five-month SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the ISS. While this mission, like all spaceflights, was jam-packed with science and hard work, Kui took a moment to snap a truly astounding photograph of the southern sky from the window of the "Kibo" Japanese Experiment Module on the ISS. This view "only happens when the ISS is oriented with its front and back reversed from the usual direction of travel — it's a very rare sight," Yui wrote in a May 14 post on X.…

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