Circular arcs of star trails viewed from International Space Station
iss073e0427643 (July 26, 2025) --- This long-exposure photograph, taken over 31 minutes from a window inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module, captures the circular arcs of star trails. In the foreground is a portion of Kibo’s Exposed Facility, where various payloads and experiments are mounted to be exposed directly to the vacuum of space.
- Date
- 2025-07-26
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- JSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
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- photograph
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