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A blue-green airglow blankets the bright city lights of the eastern United States
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iss073e0982450 (Oct. 25, 2025) --- A blue-green airglow blankets the bright city lights of the eastern United States, with bluish-white lightning strikes visible on Earth's horizon near the center-left of the frame. Stars twinkle in the night sky in the lower half of the image, captured at approximately 2:03 a.m. local time from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above northeastern Pennsylvania.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineA blue-green airglow blankets the bright city lights of the eastern United States. NASA/JSC, 2025-10-25. Public domain. ID: iss073e0982450.
