A remarkable time-lapse video taken from NASA’s International Space Station captures a spectacular aurora borealis, or the “northern lights” over Canada. The video (above) tweeted by ISS begins over the Californian Coast, moves on to North Dakota, and then to Quebec when the day breaks.

The phenomenon was sighted on September 15 from near the highest point of the space station’s orbital path, and its main solar arrays can be seen in the left foreground of the video.

Shot by a member of the Expedition 53 crew aboard the ISS, the Aurora Borealis is a fairly common phenomenon for astronauts aboard the space station.

For us earthlings, though, it’s magical. As is the counterpart from the southern hemisphere, the Aurora Australis.