News Archive / Tagged: Parallax

• New Horizons parallax experiment observes an alien sky

  Laurel KornfeldJune 14th, 2020

  NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, now over 4.3 billion miles (6.9 billion km) from Earth, successfully imaged two nearby stars displaced from the locations in the sky where they are seen from Earth in its April stellar parallax experiment.

• New Horizons conducts parallax experiment; team searches for KBOs

  Laurel KornfeldApril 24th, 2020

  More than five billion miles from Earth and over 14 years past launch, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is conducting an experiment measuring the distance to two nearby stars while mission scientists are using Earth-based telescopes to search for new Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) for the spacecraft to study.

• New Horizons parallax project seeks public participation

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 21st, 2020

  NASA’s New Horizons mission is seeking public participation in a project aimed at imaging the two closest stars, Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, from Earth on April 22 and 23, the same day the spacecraft will photograph them from almost five billion miles (eight billion km) away.