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The UK under a curtain of aurora

19 February 2015 Astronomy Now
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Image: NASA.

NASA astronaut Terry Virts captured this stunning image of  the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scandinavia on a moonlit night beneath an glowing curtain of aurora. Virts, a flight engineer on the International Space Station with Expedition 42, took the image on 6 February 2015.

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