New Horizons probe captures images at record distance from Earth
By Jon Fingas from engadget They’re the farthest since the legendary ‘Pale Blue Dot’ picture. Voyager 1 has held the distance record for a captured image for the past 27 years thanks to its legendary “Pale Blue Dot” photo (3.75…
Pluto’s atmosphere
Pluto’s atmosphere takes center stage in new NASA photo BY MIRIAM KRAMER A new photo of Pluto’s atmosphere makes the invisible visible. The new image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July, shows the blue ring of the dwarf…
This is your closest look yet at a Kuiper Belt object
By Jon Fingas From engadget NASA’s New Horizons probe spotted an object 3.3 billion miles away from the Sun. That moving dot you see in the picture above may not seem like much at first glance, but it’s a pretty…
