JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi also cut this related view of the Milky Way as seen from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft.
Soichi Noguchi / JAXA
It’s been a banner year for space images. We stared at a picturesque hill on Mars and was amazed at a fresh look at the Veil Nebula, and now there’s an enchanting lapse of time aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. It will take your mind off the earth for a few precious seconds.
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, one of ten crew members currently aboard the International Space Station, shared the timeline Monday. The short video shows a black and blue field of stars gliding across the frame.
“I did not think the view could get any better, and my crew, Soichi Noguchi, was taking time off from Resilience this night and I was knocked away,” Hopkins tweeted. Noguchi is with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and shared a ride with Hopkins and two other NASA astronauts to the ISS as part of the Crew-1 mission in November.
The four astronauts recently embarked on their SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience hairstyle at the ISS to make room for incoming missions.
In addition to doing scientific work on the ISS, Noguchi was taking images from space and sharing them on social media, including a still photo of the Milky Way seen from the “Dragon Eye.” It is an amazing shot that shows the beauty of the cosmos in a way we do not usually see from below on earth.
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