{"id":114191,"date":"2025-09-02T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114191\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:28:07","slug":"circular-star-trails-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114191\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular Star Trails &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station\u2019s<\/a> 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>Image credit: NASA\/Nichole Ayers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 26, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this long-exposure photograph \u2013 taken over 31 minutes from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,3312,128,285],"class_list":["post-114191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-international-space-station-iss","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}