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'Stunning was the word': Astronauts snap amazing aurora photo from ISS during severe geomagnetic storm

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NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Matthew Dominick shared photos of the aurora from the International Space Station .

"Stunning was the word," Pettit wrote in a lengthy post on X on Friday ( Oct. 11 ) "It looked like @Space_Station had been shrunk to some miniature dimension and inserted into a neon sign," he said.

The auroras were especially dramatic overnight on Thursday thanks to a geomagnetic storm.

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