The European Space Agency has released a timelapse video showing views of Earth and the Moon from space, captured from the International Space Station.
Highlights from the video include a view of Earth's curved horizon against the blackness of space and the Moon orbiting above our planet.
More Earth from space
We can also see a thin green aurora haze in Earth's atmosphere and the unfolding of the Space Station's solar panels, as they gather energy from the Sun to help keep the ISS in operation.
The video is a compilation of images captured by European Space Agency astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski during his 20-day stay onboard the Space Station.
Uznański-Wiśniewski is a project astronaut, which means he spent a relatively short period of time on the ISS, his stay specifically tailored to conduct science experiments proposed by institutions in his home nation of Poland.
Known as Ignis, the mission included 13 different experiments designed to help scientists learn more about human health, technology, materials science and biotechnology in space.
Uznański-Wiśniewski launched to the ISS on 25 June 2025 aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and spent 20 days on the Space Station.
The views of Earth and the Moon from space were captured by the astronaut from the Cupola, which is the Space Station's famous observation module.
The International Space Station orbits Earth at an altitude of about 400km (250 miles) and completes one orbit about once every 90 minutes, amounting to about 16 orbits every day.
