Out of this world! Astronaut Tim Peake posts amazing photos of UK from space

BRITISH astronaut Tim Peake stunned his followers after tweeting some incredible snaps of the UK from space.

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BRITISH astronaut Tim Peake stunned his followers after tweeting some incredible snaps of the UK from space.

Major Tim Peake treated his Twitter fans when he uploaded a stunning snap of the UK from his vantage point on the International Space Station.

The picture shows Earth looking beautiful at night, with major towns and cities lit up in the darkness of space.

British astronaut Tim Peake posts stunning images of Earth from Space. Picture: Tim Peake/Twitter

The 43-year-old uploaded the picture to Twitter with the cheeky caption: “Hey, I recognise that place!”

A second picture shows London at midnight on Saturday, with the caption: “I’d rather be up here ... but only just!!”

British astronaut Tim Peake posts stunning images of Earth from Space. Picture: Tim Peake/Twitter

In this stunning snap it is easy to make out the City of London and Canary Wharf, since they are the brightest points in the capital.

The dark patches are London’s royal parks and you can clearly see the river Thames snaking through the city and cutting it in two.

Peake shared this shot with his followers ‘Beautiful night pass over Italy, Alps and Mediterranean’. Picture: Tim Peake/ESA/NASA/AFP Photo

Major Peake became the first Brit to perform a space walk earlier this month, after he blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in December last year.

The intrepid space explorer is set to spend six months aboard the ISS, which orbits the Earth at an average altitude of 340 kilometres.

This article originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission.

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