February 15, 2016

Cairo lights, a cloudy Mediterranean with lightning and a yellow-green atmosphere under the stars (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Photo from today – not much chance to play with the camera yet! Goodnight from space. (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
2nd attempt at my new hobby: space photography. Earth with Kibo module. (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Looks like some fine weather for #England and #France for tonight’s fireworks! #NewYearsEve (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Great view of Sinai Peninsula & river Nile. One of my favourite diving spots down there in the Red Sea! (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Lightning in a 2-second exposure as we flew over South Africa. Every day I see new and amazing things up here! (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
A copy of one of the oldest maps in Britain, now exploring the newest frontier here in space (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Wake up, it’s a beautiful morning. (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
New Zealand looking stunning in the sunshine! (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
New Zealand looking stunning in the sunshine! (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
New Zealand looking stunning in the sunshine! photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Passed over UK today - thoughts are with all those affected by flooding in northern England. (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Sunrise strikes our solar panels – makes a beautiful sight (…oh and also provides all of our power too!) (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
It's still there. Another #aurora shot for anyone not getting bored of them yet (new today) 😉 Goodnight from space (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Where aurora meets sunrise! (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Calgary looking beautiful in the snow today - a fun city. (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
Docked close to our Soyuz, the Cygnus spacecraft with its 'umbrella' solar array will depart space station soon (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)
The view from my worksite – straight down to our beautiful planet Earth. #spacewalk (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)

Incredible photos taken by British astronaut Tim Peake from on board the International Space Station, which is orbiting the Earth.

Docked close to our Soyuz, the Cygnus spacecraft with its ‘umbrella’ solar array will depart space station soon (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)

Tim, a former British Army Air Corps officer, has since been taking amazing photos from space and posting them to his Twitter account @astro_timpeake. You can see them in their full glory by clicking on the images in the gallery above a wide-screen view.

Lightning in a 2-second exposure as we flew over South Africa. Every day I see new and amazing things up here! (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)

Tim beat more than 8,000 other hopefuls to secure one of six places on the European Space Agency (ESA) new astronaut training programme – and blasted off onboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December 2015 to the international space station.

Looks like some fine weather for #England and #France for tonight’s fireworks! #NewYearsEve (photo credit: Tim Peak/Twitter)

During the launch, each cosomaut/astronaut is allowed three songs – Tim’s were Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now, Beautiful Day by U2 and Coldplay’s A Sky Full of Stars. (source: wikipedia.org)