See what the sunset looks like from the ISS?

Koch notes that this is quite a rare occurrence for astronauts, as the ISS is usually not at a point

The transition of day to night (the so-called twilight zone)This place only twice, the rest of the time the station is always on the sunny side.

A couple times a year, the @Space_Station orbithappens to align the shadows line on earth. The sun is shining away from the sun. Beautiful time to cloud watch. #nofilter pic.twitter.com/BYDLv8RFVr

— Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) May 20, 2019

Venus rise at sunrise, from the @Space_Station. pic.twitter.com/pqA2WaDvFZ

— Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) May 31, 2019

Previously, cosmonaut Alexander Gerst posted a recording from the ISS from the launch of Soyuz MS-11, which successfully took place on December 3, 2018.

The cosmonauts of the ISS have also recently laid out pictures of a very rare atmospheric phenomenon - the own luminescence of the extreme layers of the Earth’s atmosphere, which can only be seen outside the planet.