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The shimmering waves and swirls, caused by charged particles colliding in the earth's atmosphere, are usually observed from the polar regions, yet rarely seen from above.

But astronauts travelling on the International Space Station and during missions on board space shuttles have shown that nature's light show is clearly visible miles outside the Earth's atmosphere.

www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5579951/Norther
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"The coolest thing for me is hanging by a window just after sunrise and watch the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the Earth moves underneath. My eyes are really glued to the outside. It is just absolutely amazing, magical, wonderful thing to do that."
-Dr Kawpana Chawla, famous last words, slowly cooked in curry sauce on Columbia Space Shuttle
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3734518559578754313

"You are in the blackest black you could ever imagine. I have reached the statute of limitations on a secret of the space program: How do you... go to the bathroom? Then you hear 'bloop, bloop, bloop, blooooop. I never did find out what that was. Where's my huggy pillow?"
-Captain Ron Evans, US Navy, serial killing Vietnam veteran bomber pilot, Apollo 17, died of "heart attack" on April 6, 1990 (aged 57)

"Walking on the surface of the moon was really a lot easier perhaps than we had even been led to believe. The horizon clearly curved away in that rather smooth part of the moon chosen for our landing site for Apollo 11. The sky was black as could be."
-Colonel "Buzz" Aldrin (alcoholic), July 20, 1999

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"The coolest thing for me is hanging by a window just after sunrise and watch the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the Earth moves underneath."

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"The coolest thing for me is hanging by a window just after sunrise and watch the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the Earth moves underneath."

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and saying... that Apollo said... that there are no stars in space? Because they also talk about how black the blackness is? Even though space is demonstrably full of stars that are kind of just hanging there in that blackness?

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Sir Patrick Moore Knight of the British Empire (BBC's Sky At Night): "When you looked up at the sky, could you actually see the stars in the solar corona, in spite of the glare?"

Lt Neil Armstrong: "We were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the moon by eye, without looking through the optics, I dont recall when photographing the solar corona what stars we could see."

Col Buzz Aldrin, alcoholic: "I don't remember seeing any."

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"We were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the moon by eye, without looking through the optics, I dont recall when photographing the solar corona what stars we could see."
-Lt Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 press con

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