THIS PICTURE: (July 29, 2021) --- Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) is pictured inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world." The orbiting lab was traveling 263 miles above the Atlantic Ocean, in between South America and Africa, at the time this photograph was taken. ... STORY COPY: This is a jaw-dropping gallery of recent aurora photographs taken from space. They were captured by Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) from the International Space Station (ISS). The astronaut has been shooting this series since the beginning of August 2021. He commented: ??sThese last few days have been auroraspectacular! This amazing light show occurs when particles from the Sun hit Earth's magnetosphere, we were very lucky to see such outbursts and I don't remember such beautiful displays during Proxima. I think it is the most amazing thing I have ever seen that nature can give us. It is beautiful to see and photograph but also a visible show of our planet's atmosphere protecting us from radiation. I shot a few timelapses that will follow, it is another thing to watch the aurora dance!??? When: 29 Jul 2021 Credit: ESA/NASA??"T. Pesquet/Cover-Images.com **Editorial Use Only**