{"id":39615,"date":"2025-09-02T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39615\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:02:07","slug":"circular-star-trails-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39615\/","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":39616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[18,19,915,17,133,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-39615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-international-space-station-iss","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}