By Dean Murray

Jaw-dropping scenes show a “train” of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites in orbit – along with an impressive aurora.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured the spectacle from 257 miles up on the International Space Station (ISS).

Sharing footage from his recent time on the orbiting platform, he commented on Tuesday (Oct 7): “My best sighting of a Starlink satellite ‘train’ from orbit!”

Posting on X (formerly Twitter), his son A. Pettit called it a “contender for one of the coolest videos from space”, and wrote: “Nothing visualizes how omnipresently SURROUNDED by satellites we are better than this video.”

He added: “And this is only the ones that are visible in a tiny fraction of the Earth’s limb.”

Starlink is the world’s first and largest satellite constellation using a

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