{"id":508997,"date":"2018-08-15T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=70db1baa057e55708188e6cb891e20f1"},"modified":"2018-08-15T08:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:33:38","slug":"video-nasas-nicer-does-the-space-station-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=508997","title":{"rendered":"Video: NASA&#8217;s NICER does the space station twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time-lapse video, obtained June 8, 2018, shows the precise choreography of NASA&#8217;s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) as it studies pulsars and other X-ray sources from its perch aboard the International Space Station. NICER observes and tracks numerous sources each day, ranging from the star closest to the sun, Proxima Centauri, to X-ray sources in other galaxies. Movement in the movie, which represents a little more than one 90-minute orbit, is sped up by 100 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time-lapse video, obtained June 8, 2018, shows the precise choreography of NASA&#8217;s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) as it studies pulsars and other X-ray sources from its perch aboard the International Space Station. NICER observe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508998,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508997\/revisions\/508998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}