--- ---  # This Is Earth's Biggest Storm This Year as Seen From Space  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Oct 9, 2014 12:22 PM UTC  NASA/Reid Wiseman  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Oct 9, 2014 12:22 PM UTC Super Typhoon Vongfong is the strongest storm on Earth since the deadly Hurricane Haiyan swept through the Philippines last year, and it’s barreling up through the Western Pacific Ocean. The storm, which was the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, is slowly losing steam, but it’s expected to near South Korea and the Japanese mainland by early next week. See an image of the massive storm as [spotted and tweeted](https://twitter.com/astro%5Freid/status/520165368275697664) by Astronaut Reid Wiseman aboard the International Space Station above. See Super Typhoon Vongfong From Space ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3484354/super-typhoon-vongfong/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3484354/super-typhoon-vongfong/"},"headline":"This Is Earth's Biggest Storm This Year as Seen From Space","datePublished":"2014-10-09T12:22:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:41.696Z","description":"NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted this shot from the International Space Station.","url":"https://time.com/3484354/super-typhoon-vongfong/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Science topic","international space station","Astronaut","typhoon"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e77e1bcc70bdb90/69875f60e20a874f24a8250a/bzf_ptoieaaz4sl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e77e1bcc70bdb90/69875f60e20a874f24a8250a/bzf_ptoieaaz4sl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bzf_pTOIEAAZ4sL","caption":"","creditText":"NASA/Reid Wiseman","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3484354/super-typhoon-vongfong/","name":"This Is Earth's Biggest Storm This Year as Seen From Space"}}]}] ```