Astronauts can see ‘super typhoon’ Noru from space, and their photos are incredible
‘You can almost sense its power from 250 miles above,’ say astronauts on social media

Typhoon Noru is barreling northwest across the Pacific Ocean and taking aim at Japan, and possibly Korea or China, this weekend.
Forecasters are intently tracking the storm. As of Sunday, it was a category 5 super typhoon with 160 mph winds — equivalent to a category 2 hurricane and currently the most powerful storm on Earth, according to the Weather Channel.
“Damaging winds, storm-surge flooding and rainfall flooding all appear to be likely impacts in at least some part of southern Japan by this weekend. Preparations for a destructive typhoon should be made in the days ahead,” the site wrote on Tuesday.
However, astronauts and cosmonauts currently aboard the International Space Station are also keeping a close eye on Noru — and the images they’re sending back to Earth over Twitter are quite stunning.
Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky was among the first to post an image to his feed from the ISS. “Super #Typhoon #Noru swirling in the Pacific Ocean,” Ryazansky wrote.
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer also pressed his camera up to a window, posting the following image a few hours after his Russian colleague. It shows the counterclockwise-spinning storm from a wider, more top-down angle.