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Astronaut captures gorgeous green aurora shining behind Russian spacecraft docked at ISS (photo)

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Astronaut Dominick has taken as many as 200,000 photos aboard the ISS in his half-year mission.

Earth 's auroras are caused by charged particles from the sun slamming into molecules in Earth 's atmosphere.

Dominick added the image was taken as the sun was visible behind the camera, "so that a little bit of light illuminates the Soyuz ".