Spectacular night-time photos of Earth taken from the space station | Mail Online

Spectacular night-time photos of Earth taken from the space station | Mail Online: "We often look up at the sky at night and wonder at the stars, but from space Earth has its own impressive light show.

These pictures taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station show London, Paris lit up at night, the southern Mediterranean including Ibiza and Majorca and the light of towns snaking down the river Nile from Cairo.

One shot even captures the green northern lights spread out across the top of the earth above Britain."