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Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla shared a breathtaking video of India illuminated at night during Diwali, as seen from space. The video, posted on X (formerly Twitter), quickly went viral, amassing millions of views and sparking awe across social media.

Filmed from the space station’s observation module during his 18-day orbital mission, the clip shows India glowing brilliantly from southwest to northeast, a living canvas of light stretching across the subcontinent.

In his poetic caption, Shukla, fondly known as “Shux", wrote, “Flying over India from space, from the sunlit southwest to the misty northeast, is like watching a living galaxy unfurl beneath you."

He described how India’s radiance stood out even from hundreds of kilometres above the Earth. “The pen

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