{"id":277266,"date":"2025-09-03T00:17:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=bfdc9337b500e5e29d6744b0fafe6797"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:17:28","slug":"circular-star-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=277266","title":{"rendered":"Circular Star Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Stars photographed over 31 minutes make a concentric pattern of white circles. At the bottom edge of the photo, there is a soft orange glow. A portion of the International Space Station can be seen in the foreground. This photo was taken through a window on the space station.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg 8256w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iss073e0427643orig.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Nichole Ayers<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\">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.&nbsp;The 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","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 the circular arcs of star trails. In its third decade of continuous human presence, the space station has a far-reaching impact as a microgravity lab [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15651],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-space-station-iss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277366,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277266\/revisions\/277366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}