The Aurora, at eye-level!

The crew of the International Space Station have an incredible vantage from which to see both the southern (Australis) and northern (Borealis) Auroras: edge-on.

Here's a still frame of one such:


Click here for an animated version of the same aurora.

Many other ISS auroral images and videos:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ISSAurora/

Related:
The Boston Globe has an online feature called "The Big Picture;" galleries of glorious, hi-res photos that would suck if printed on newsprint with cheap inks. Instead of running crappy newspaper version, the Globe puts them online. Sometimes, they highlight space images, as in ths gallery of incredible images of Earth shot from the ISS:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/recent_scenes_from_the_iss.html