Two astronauts are posting jaw-dropping Vines, timelapses and photos from space
The Aurora, Sahara, lightning, sunrises and more have all been captured beautifully
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Your support makes all the difference.Chris Hadfield has competition in the 'Earth's favourite astronaut' stakes, with Nasa's Reid Wiseman and ESA's Alexander Gerst posting incredible content captured from the International Space Station on their Twitter feeds.
I don't know if the pair have actually been conducting any research, but they seem to be having a whale of a time taking videos, timelapses, Vines, photos and panoramas on the ISS, their enthusiasm being clear from their exclamation mark-laden tweets.
The pair have so far shown off the Earth's beauty like never before, posting some fascinating demonstrations of zero gravity, inserting cameras into water bubbles and giving insight into daily life at the station - here's some of their best tweets (may take a few seconds to load):
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