ISS Passes Over African Storms While the Milky Way Rises [Video]

This all too brief time lapse video from the International Space Station shows our home planet with storms sparking over Africa. It’s a breathtaking, if humbling, view, made all the more so by the enormous Milky Way galaxy rising behind Earth. Just a little reminder of how staggeringly huge and beautiful the universe is and how small we are.

(via Universe Today)

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