A gorgeous picture of the aurora from the International Space Station, taken by Scott Kelly.

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Remember when I mentioned that last week the Sun totally barfed at 2.2 million miles per hour? Well, that solar storm produced gorgeous aurora borealis.

Boing Boing:

Following up on a previous Boing Boing post: last week, our sun’s hot plasma shot a billion tons of energetic particles towards Earth, which led to some amazing aurora borealis. I was thrilled to see a fine batch of northern lights photos on Flickr, and even more excited that their creators gave us permission to run them on National Geographic News. And–there could be more coming tonight, thanks to a Saturday solar flare! Enjoy!

The pictures are quite amazing sexy-time space porn. Hit the jump to check the lot of them out.

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