Space Station astronauts got an awesome aurora show this weekend

The crewmembers on the International Space Station got quite the cosmic show this weekend when bright green and red aurora sparked by a solar storm danced above Earth. NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren posted psychedelic photos of the celestial light show on Twitter Sunday, sharing their incredible views of auroras from space with people that may not have been able to see the curtains of light covering the planet. Saturday and Sunday's auroras were likely sparked by a powerful solar storm that impacted Earth over the weekend. A burst of super-heated plasma called a coronal mass ejection shot out from the sun on Sept. 18, arriving at Earth over the weekend, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center. More

(Source: Mashable - Sep 22)