NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared an image from space, showing aurora lighting up the Earth's horizon. Kelly is currently at the International Space Station (ISS) on his year-long mission.

It's certainly not a first for astronauts to photograph auroras from orbit, but what sets this particular picture apart from previous ones is the striking layers showing the Earth, aurora glow, star field and the outside of the station looking like fingertips across the bottom.

The photograph was taken on August 15 and NASA released it on Tuesday as an Image of the Day. The Earth's aurora has generated fantastic imagery for the second time this year.

NASA said in a statement that a coronal mass ejection (CME) towards Earth was emitted by the Sun at 780 miles per second on June 20. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory obtained the images that captured the eruption.

Earth's magnetic field was hit by the violent burst of coronal matter at 1:59 p. m. EST on June 22. The consequent geomagnetic storm was designated as a G4 by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. G4 is a very rare storm.

The image taken by Kelly was uploaded to Twitter on Day 141 of his ISS stay. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is currently at the best place to watch cosmic wonders.

Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are in the middle of their year-long mission at the ISS. The duo will return to earth next spring.