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Chris Williams
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Chris Williams
NASA
@Astro_ChrisW
@NASA Astronaut, Group 23 | Expedition 74 Flight Engineer | 📍@Space_Station
International Space Station
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    Chris Williams
    NASA
    @Astro_ChrisW
    May 4
    One question I get a lot is can you see the stars differently from up in space. When we orbit on the night side of the planet, we get a view of the stars very much like being in a very dark place on Earth. And because of our orbital inclination, we get to see the stars of both
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    Chris Williams
    NASA
    @Astro_ChrisW
    Apr 30
    On April 27th at about 10:40 PM GMT, I was in the @Space_Station Cupola and saw something really neat. I was scanning the sky to try to catch a glimpse of the approaching Progress MS-34 vehicle bringing new supplies. Just as we were passing over West Africa, I saw a bright
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    Chris Williams
    NASA
    @Astro_ChrisW
    Apr 28
    I have been playing around with some long exposure shots that show some beautiful effects with our orbital motion. City lights are turned into streaks across the earth, and lightning storms form a speckled pattern during these several-minute exposures.
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    Chris Williams
    NASA
    @Astro_ChrisW
    Apr 27
    Looking out the windows of the @Space_Station during a night pass, you can occasionally see greenish lights just off the coast. These lights are from fishing boats that use the green light to attract squid and other fish. I captured this image while we were flying over the west
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    Chris Williams
    NASA
    @Astro_ChrisW
    Apr 21
    This is an image of Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) that I took from the Cupola on the @Space_Station. I was originally taking some photos looking for meteors from the Lyrid and saw the tail of the comet! It was almost blocked in my view by the base of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, but
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