The NASA astronaut’s photo was taken from his orbital home and workplace about 250 miles (402km) above the planet. Nick Hague, 44, is one of the four American astronauts currently stationed onboard the International Space Station (ISS). But the NASA astronaut will soon wave goodbye to the ISS and is scheduled to return home after more than 200 days in space. The astronaut, together with Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori from the United Arab Emirates will fly back to Earth on Thursday, October 3.
The Southern Lights, or Aurora Australis, are the result of charged solar particles exciting atoms of oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the billowing light show is known as the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.
For Mr Hague, however, the Southern Lights struck a much more touching note.
The astronaut tweeted from space: “Entranced by the eerie dance of the Southern Lights, I can’t help but remember sitting next to my children watching the movie ‘Frozen’, listening to ‘Let it go. Let it go’.
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“I’m looking forward to reuniting with my family and loved ones tomorrow.”
Mr Hague was selected as an astronaut for the US space agency in 2013.
The Kansas-native holds a Bachelor of Science in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and a Master of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
NASA said: “He was selected for a mission to the International Space Station which launched on October 11, 2018.
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“Unfortunately, he and his crewmate Alexey Ovchinin, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, were forced to abort the mission when a rocket booster experienced a malfunction shortly after the launch of their Soyuz MS-10. The aborted spacecraft landed safely.”
The astronaut finally reached the ISS in March 2019 and served as part of the ISS Expedition 59 and 60 crew.
He is married to Lieutenant Colonel Catie Hague of the US Air Force.
The couple are “proud parents” to two sons.