{"id":797999,"date":"2025-09-02T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797999"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:25:53","slug":"circular-star-trails-nasa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797999","title":{"rendered":"Circular Star Trails &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On July 26, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this long-exposure photograph \u2013 taken over 31 minutes from a window inside the International Space Station\u2019s Kibo laboratory module \u2013 capturing the circular arcs of star trails.<\/p>\n<p>In its third decade of continuous human presence, the space station has a far-reaching impact as a microgravity lab hosting technology, demonstrations, and scientific investigations from a range of fields.\u00a0The research done on the orbiting laboratory will inform long-duration missions like Artemis and future human expeditions to Mars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Nichole Ayers<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/circular-star-trails\/?rand=772197\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 26, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this long-exposure photograph \u2013 taken over 31 minutes from a window inside the International Space Station\u2019s Kibo laboratory module \u2013 capturing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797999","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/797996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}