Space is awesome: Time-lapse of Earth at night

Watch the planet spin from the comfort of your living room

By Keith Shaw

November 14, 2011, 10:01 AM — We've seen some time-lapse videos before of the Earth rotating, as taken from the International Space Station, but they've never looked as good as this. Gosh, the planet is pretty:

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

You can learn more about the video and the different parts of the planet taken in each shot here.

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Keith Shaw writes the Cool Tools column for Network World, and is the Multimedia Content Editor for IDG Enterprise, responsible for editorial video and audio content creation. Follow him on Twitter @shawkeith.