This image shows dust hovering over Portugal and Spain on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016, as seen from the International Space Station.

(Twitter/@astro_timpeake)

Miles above Earth, European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake captured a beautiful image of Saharan dust getting pulled into Europe by a storm system on Sunday.

Peake is spending six months aboard the International Space Station, and has frequently been the source of inspiring imagery showing our planet from a unique angle. Sunday morning, Peake saw the dust plume hovering over Spain and Portugal, and posted the photo to his account.

The plume of dust that moved through the Iberian Peninsula on Sunday originated from the Sahara desert of northwest Africa, said weather.com meteorologist .

"An area of low pressure aloft in combination with a weak surface low-pressure system helped to pull the dust northward, which then appeared vividly on satellite," Dolce said.

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Peake's tweet was praised by science lovers from all ends of the planet and earned more than 2,000 retweets by Monday morning.

Peake, a flight engineer from the United Kingdom, and is one of six scientists in orbit aboard the ISS.

Here's another look at the dust cloud that gives a little more perspective, as seen on the :

(Image via NASA Worldview)

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