14 DAY TRIAL // First off, fair warning: before you get around to feasting your eyes on the photo next to this article and the one below, be sure you have a defibrillator nearby.
I mean it. I am not to be held responsible if your heart stops the moment you lay eyes on these positively breathtaking space images of the aurora borealis and there is nobody around to revive you.
The photos, both taken from aboard the International Space Station, hit the online community a couple of days ago, when they were shared on Twitter by astronaut Alexander Gerst.
They have since gone viral. Truth be told, they are nothing short of amazing, so it should come as no surprise that pretty much everybody who has seen them has felt the need to share them with friends and family.
“Sometimes it seems like our planet is a living being itself. If it were, what would it tell us?” Alexander Gerst writes in the message accompanying one of these space photos.
Well, I am no mind reader, but if I were to guess, I'd say that our good old Earth would more or less politely ask us to stop burning fossil fuels and chopping down the forests it has been looking after for decades.
