Watch: Berlin’s East-West divide is still visible – from space; video awes netizens

East Berlin has a nostalgic orange and yellow glow, while the West struts its stuff in a slick modern white.

You can see east-west berlin from space.

The image spills the secrets of a city where the echoes of its divided past still shimmer in the night

In an Instagram reel dropped by @dw_euromaxx, the tangled history of Berlin unfolds through a jaw-dropping photo shared by NASA.

The image spills the secrets of a city where the echoes of its divided past still shimmer in the night — East Berlin has a nostalgic orange and yellow glow, while the West struts its stuff in a slick modern white.

You can spot this illuminating divide all the way from space. The reel dives into the electric mystery, pulling back the curtain on why Berlin‘s streets still carry the scars of its 40-year split. Turns out, the city’s streetlights spill the tea on its past.

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East Berlin, once the behind-the-curtain star, clings to its history with a whopping 40,000 sodium-vapour lamps. The orange and yellow lights throw a curveball at colour vision in the dark.

On the flip side, West Berlin has amped up their lighting game with mercury-vapour, fluorescent, and LED lamps, casting a contemporary, white spell on the streets.

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Instagram users went on to express their awe for the same. One netizen said, “The amber lights are much better for people and the wildlife’s eyes to adjust and see at night.”

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Another wrote, “East Berlin lights are much better, let’s make them all like this”.