Astronaut shares incredible picture of a ‘single lightning strike’ from space | Trending | Space

“Green lights from fishing boats in Southeast Asia, city lights, a sun about to rise, and a single lightning strike in the left part of the frame that looks like a nebula. Camera setup on intervalometer to try and capture lighting. Found this image late in a sequence of about a 1000 images,” the astronaut wrote as he posted the picture.

He added a closeup photo in a follow-up post on the same X thread. “The way the lightning illuminates the clouds makes it look like a nebula to me (left side of the larger image above),” he wrote.

Take a look at the photo here:

With over 74,000 views, the viral share has collected nearly 800 likes. The post has further prompted mesmerised X users to share varied…