Earth from 240 miles up

18 time-lapse sequences of photos taken from the International Space Station, gorgeously processed and edited by Michael König. There’s so much going on it’s hard to know where to focus while you watch—the North and Southern Lights? The flickers of lightning in the clouds? The cobwebs of settlement light stretching across continents? A list of the locations being passed over can be found here; the first two sequences were taken above the United States.

2011, Earth, Space, Time Lapse, XL