See that faint little red thing above the bright white thing in this picture? That's a red sprite, a relatively rare atmospheric phenomenon that sometimes accompanies lightning strikes, except in the opposite direction, firing upwards towards space.

The fine astronauts onboard the ISS have been very kind to us space nerds. Its cameras have blessed us with more breathtaking timelapses than we can count. And now onboard astronaut Don Pettit is kicking things into hyperspace with this set of gorgeous "star trails" that look like they've been plucked right out of Tron.

One thing that never gets old is watching a time lapse of Earth from space. NASA's just released a new four minute long time lapse featuring 14 different sequences of our planet taken from the ISS by the Expedition 30 crew and set to Howard Blake's "Walking in the Air." This is emotional stuff.

Last month, an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) arrived at the International Space Station with a load of oxygen, water, food, clothing, hardware, fuel and spare parts. One of the resident astronauts aboard the station snapped this image of the ATV firing its thrusters as it moved in for docking.