Colors at night are beautiful when looking at Earth at night. Here you can see blues from the squid boats, the bright lights of cities, storms, and the milkyway, stars, and galaxies rising in the sky. This was shot from the Dragon forward window with 3 second exposures and stitched together into a timelapse. That's what it looks like through the window; just, a little slower.

Star trails in video format from the Dragon window. It in front and on top of station (forward zenith) so it looks out in the direction of stations travel. These are a complication of 15 second exposures.

Two dramatically different star trail images. The yellow gold happened over India where the city lights lit up Earth on these compiled 15 second exposures. The red streak is closer to Vietnam where the fishing boats stand out in the ocean.

Tonight’s aurora has a purple hue. The KP is ~4. We are approaching high beta so there is more light creeping over the horizon. It mixes the colors and you can see the satellites in the nights sky. (14mm, 1/4 interval, broken into two parts)

Spacewalk preparation. We went out of the door in the morning for the last space walk (central time), however, the flight controllers at NASA and our crew started getting ready 8 hours before that with a morning routine, preparing the equipment, putting the suits on, and breathing 100% oxygen. Okay, there’s a lot more to it than that, but the video is a good snapshot of the amazing work that NASA engineers do and Jack Hathaway and @astro_jessica

I was worried I might get used to seeing sights like this. I don’t. This was a moon rise, on an iPhone, during a break from a required workout which is nearby the window. It reminds me to carry that same sense of awe when I return. Also, I can’t wait until we land on the moon again.

Chez ISS - Cooking on @Space_Station with @Astro_Jessica and Anil On this episode we give you farm to table, simple, and delicious. This Kale and Wasabi Mustard was grown on ISS over one month. We harvested several leaves and put them to the test. It might be the best meal we have cooked so far. Thanks to the @NASA veggie team for guiding us through the growth process and providing simple skills that could help provide food for future space travel. Mark Watney would be proud.

Timelapse of the ISS Optimal Propellent Maneuver (OPM)! We use this to reorient station's attitude in preparation for docking events. This one occurred over some magnificent Mediterranean city lights!

A room with a view: The aurora today as seen from the SpaceX Dragon window. Space station is moving foward and the window looks out in the direction of travel. You can make out the window framing. Z9 1/4s 15mm ISO 8000 MP4.

Little things. Captain Jack Hathaway helping the team in so many ways. These scissors open the food packets and he always preps them for tomorrow. Sometimes they sway on their ends like a Forrest of scissors. I love that.

I’ll never forget this sight. Tonight I saw my first aurora from space. Luckily, there is a video to help remember and captured it perfectly. The KP index was over 5 tonight because of a solar event and the sky over Australia lit up and the green snaked across the atmosphere. I was filled with awe and gratitude. It’s a beautiful planet we share.

Crater Lake from the ISS last night. Just past the solar arrays. Even from 250 miles up, you can't miss it — that deep blue caldera, Wizard Island tucked in the corner. But look east of the lake and you'll see the other story: smoke from wildfires stretching across Oregon. Before I was an astronaut, I served as a flight surgeon with the 173rd Fighter Wing at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, just down the road from this lake. I spent a lot of good years in that corner of Oregon, and it's hard to watch it burn from up here. Thinking of everyone impacted by the fires — the families who've lost homes, and the thousands of firefighters and aircrews working around the clock down there. From this altitude you see how big the smoke is. You also see how many people are fighting it.

I looked down the hall and saw Anna Kikina smiling as she searched for an item during her workday. Always so positive and has a huge smile on her face that it lifts my spirits up anytime we cross paths.

A day in the life: if the suit fits, wear it. The road to EVA starts 2 to 3 weeks before a spacewalk and involves the whole team at @NASA, including suit engineers, specialists, astronauts, flight directors, among others. In this video, @astro_hathaway explains our first step in that direction.