US astronaut Scott Kelly has tweeted a stunning night image of South India from the International Space Station (ISS) which has gone viral on the microblogging site.
The picture was shot from the South-West direction and India's south coast is in the east direction in the image.
In the image, faded yellow colour is spread all over and beautifully embedded in the night. Bright spots denote cities in the image.
The panoramic image was captured from the ISS using a 28-millimetre lens of a Nikon D4 digital camera.
The image went viral on the microblogging site Twitter and the tweet has already been retweeted 3,943 times while it was favourited by 7,225 people, 'The TeCake' website reported.
Kelly had earlier tweeted a series of pictures including images of Indian cities, The Great Ganges and stunning night time image of Indian-Pakistan border captured at night last month.
Kelly has spent 415 days on ISS, the longest by an American astronaut. On October 16, he completed 383 days in space, breaking the record of US astronaut Mike Fincke who had spent 382 cumulative days.
