NASA Astronaut Jack Fischer tweeted a time-lapse video of the Aurora "250 miles above at 17,500 mph."
People have asked me what a “burrito of awesomeness smothered in awesome sauce” is... Well folks, it looks like this…awesome sauce is green. pic.twitter.com/rgTgbdb84f
— Jack Fischer (@Astro2fish) July 23, 2017
Fischer likened the Northern Lights to "awesome sauce."
The Northern Lights are visible when large numbers of electrons at high speed stream in towards the Earth along its magnetic field and collide with the highest air particles, according to Tromsø Geophysical Observatory.