She then managed to capture a few photos the next day, which she shared May 5. Fellow NASA astronaut Anne McClain also photographed the rare phenomenon. Who is on the International Space Station?

NASA astronauts on International Space Station capture images of lightning from space The images McClain and Ayers shared show electrostatic discharges – in other words, lightning – from above ...

In two of the pictures, Shukla can be seen looking at our blue planet Earth from the ISS's 7-windowed Cupola Module. In the other two pictures, the beaming astronaut an be seen carrying out his ...

NASA astronauts on ISS capture images of lightning from space The images McClain and Ayers shared show electrostatic discharges – in other words, lightning – from above the clouds as they ...

The images McClain and Ayers shared show electrostatic discharges – in other words, lightning – from above the clouds as they orbited in the International Space Station. In Ayers' post on X ...

U.S. astronaut Nichole "Vapor" Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a "sprite" blazing to life above an intense thunderstorm — and she did this while orbiting 250 miles ...

NASA astronaut Anne McClain captured several images in May of lightning as seen from the International Space Station. The technique, in which images are taken at 120 frames per second, was ...

Nichole Ayers/NASA “Just. Wow.” So said NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers as she caught sight of a phenomenon known as a sprite from the International Space Station (ISS) 250 miles above Earth.

His video follows footage captured by ISS cameras in 2012, when the station was orbiting over Southeast Asia. Last year, an unnamed astronaut aboard the ISS snagged a still photograph of sprite ...