Spend next New Year's eve with New Horizons
The New Year's celebration to usher in 2019 will include an event like no other – more than four billion miles from Earth.
The New Year's celebration to usher in 2019 will include an event like no other – more than four billion miles from Earth.
Space Exploration
Jan 5, 2018
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The astronomy world has been abuzz recently with the discovery of a new object cutting through our solar system. Its path indicates it came from interstellar space—the first body of its kind ever observed.
Astronomy
Nov 7, 2017
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NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is looking for your ideas on what to informally name its next flyby destination, a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) past Pluto.
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2017
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft doesn't zoom past its next science target until New Year's Day 2019, but the Kuiper Belt object, known as 2014 MU69, is already revealing surprises.
Space Exploration
Jul 6, 2017
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An unknown, unseen "planetary mass object" may lurk in the outer reaches of our solar system, according to new research on the orbits of minor planets to be published in the Astronomical Journal. This object would be different ...
Astronomy
Jun 22, 2017
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The combined power of three space observatories, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has helped astronomers uncover a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, catalogued as 2007 OR10. The pair resides in the frigid ...
Astronomy
May 18, 2017
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Dr Wes Fraser from Queen's led an international research project 'Colours of the Outer Solar Systems Origins Survey' Col-OSSOS, which uses data collected from the Frederick C. Gillett Gemini North Telescope and Canada-France-Hawaii ...
Astronomy
Apr 4, 2017
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The world's largest digital survey of the visible Universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been publicly released.
Astronomy
Dec 19, 2016
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As the search for a hypothetical, unseen planet far, far beyond Neptune's orbit continues, research by a team of the University of Arizona provides additional support for the possible existence of such a world and narrows ...
Astronomy
Oct 19, 2016
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NASA's New Horizons is doing some sightseeing along the way, as the spacecraft speeds toward a New Year's Day 2019 date with an ancient object in the distant region beyond Pluto known as 2014 MU69.
Space Exploration
Sep 2, 2016
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