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Mysterious objects spotted in the outer solar system beyond Pluto
According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...
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NASA posts amazing New Horizons Pluto flyby video on Instagram
After one space aficionado created a gorgeous timelapse video a few weeks ago that showed us NASA’s entire New Horizons’ Pluto mission fly by in 16 seconds, the space agency posted an actual ...
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First false-color images from NASA show off Pluto's complex surface features
Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.
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NASA extends New Horizons mission through late 2020s
Related: NASA may shift New Horizons Pluto probe to sun-studying mission ... on an extended mission that centered on a flyby of another Kuiper Belt object (KBO) — the 21-mile-wide (34 kilometers ...
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Structure of the Outer Solar System Revealed - The Subaru Telescope and New Horizons' 20-Year Challenge
Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope's ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a ...
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New Horizons spacecraft measurements shed light on the darkness of the universe
More than 18 years after launch and nine years after its historic exploration of Pluto, New Horizons is more than 5.4 billion miles (7.3 billion kilometers) from Earth, in a region of the solar ...
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Findings of outer Solar System revealed using information gathered from the Subaru Telescope on Hawaiʻi Island and New Horizons spacecraft
The Subaru Telescope is a large optical-infrared telescope located on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi and operated by the National ...
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The New Horizons spacecraft is only hours away from its closest approach to Pluto. It’s hoped the brief encounter will help answer many questions about the oddball member of our solar system.
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Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System
We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...
Pluto mission: South African astronomers join forces with NASA to learn more about the dwarf planet
When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth ...
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New Horizons: Nasa probe survives flyby of Ultima Thule
"We've just accomplished the most distant flyby." This first radio message ... and 1.5 billion km beyond even the dwarf planet Pluto which New Horizons visited in 2015. It's estimated there ...
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How NASA Got New Horizons To Pluto
Before the flyby, says Owen, the time of New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto could not be predicted to better than a few hundred seconds. Optical navigation pictures in the last week before ...