On Wednesday around 1PM, while all of you were at school, work, stuck in traffic or probably just eating your lunch, the International Space Station zoomed past us at 7.66km per second, 400 kilometers above our heads.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this beautiful shot, and tweeted it in both French and English

I hope Thomas will come visit Beirut when he comes back from orbiting the Earth for the next 6 months. I’m sure many of you guys are like me, and are fascinated by space. I’d watch every ISS documentary I could on the Discovery Channel as a kid. Today though, with astronauts doing research up there having access to the Internet, we get a lot of amazing first-hand stories, photos and videos. Who didn’t spend hours sifting through Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s epic timeline? After Chris came back to the surface though, I stopped getting updates like these, so I’m extra happy I discovered Thomas today!

His shots and animated gifs are all awesome, and his captions are always lighthearted and sweet. Here’s a couple more I liked:

Don’t forget, no matter how bad things are, and how huge your problems might seem, at the end of the day, they’re just a tiny spec on a tiny planet in an infinitely vast and gorgeous universe. Take some time out of your week to go somewhere dark and lie back and look up into space. Who knows, there might be an astronaut zooming past and looking back at you, like on Wednesday afternoon!