Brighton has been caught on camera from 250 miles above Earth.
The city was snapped from aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by astronaut and Brighton University graduate Dr Sultan Al Neyadi.
Sultan, who graduated from the university in 2004, is among a team of astronauts taking part in a six-month expedition on board the ISS.
He and his crew blasted off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in March and are due to return to Earth next month.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, Sultan posted a picture of him floating on board the space station in a Brighton University shirt, as well as an image of Brighton from space.
He posted: “The beautiful city of Brighton, where I spent memorable years during my studies at the University of Brighton. Hello from space to all my friends there.”
Sultan is one of the first two astronauts from the United Arab Emirates and became the first Arab to perform a spacewalk in April.
Last month, Sultan gave new graduates from Brighton University a special message from aboard the ISS, congratulating them on their achievement.
In a video specially for the 3,000 students taking part in graduation ceremonies, he praised them for their “patience and dedication” and wished them well in their future endeavours.
His journey to space began almost 20 years ago when he came to the UK to study for an undergraduate degree in electronics and communications engineering at the university.
Sultan returned to the UAE after graduation where earned a master’s degree in computer engineering and later gained a doctorate in Australia.
First launched in November 1998, the ISS is the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit and is regularly visible to the naked eye from the ground below, circling the Earth roughly every 93 minutes.
The project involves five space agencies; NASA from the United States, Japan’s JAXA, Europe’s ESA, Canada’s CSA and Russia’s Roscosmos.
Described as the most expensive single item ever constructed, the ISS is set to be retired and de-orbited in 2031.
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