{"id":108698,"date":"2020-06-15T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-horizons-is-so-far-from-earth-that-the-positions-of-the-stars-look-a-little-different-from-its-perspective"},"modified":"2020-06-15T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:02:49","slug":"new-horizons-is-so-far-from-earth-that-the-positions-of-the-stars-look-a-little-different-from-its-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-horizons-is-so-far-from-earth-that-the-positions-of-the-stars-look-a-little-different-from-its-perspective","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons is so Far From Earth That the Positions of the Stars Look a Little Different From its Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In July of 2015<\/a>, the New Horizons<\/a> <\/em>spacecraft made history when it became the first robotic explorer to conduct a flyby of Pluto. This was followed by another first, when the NASA mission conducted the first flyby of a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) on December 31st, 2018<\/a> \u2013 which has since been named Arrokoth<\/a>. Now, on the edge of the Solar System, New Horizons <\/em>is still yielding some groundbreaking views of the cosmos.<\/p>\n

For example, we here on Earth are used to thinking that the positions of the stars are \u201cfixed\u201d. In a sense, they are, since their positions and motions are relatively uniform when seen from our perspective. But a recent experiment<\/a> conducted by the New Horizons<\/em> team shows how familiar stars like Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 (two of the closest stars in our neighbors) look different when viewed from the edge of the Solar System.<\/p>\n

Located in the constellation Leo, Wolf 359 is an M-type (red dwarf) star that is roughly 7.9 light-years from Earth. It can be found close to the same path the Sun follows through the sky (the ecliptic), but can only be seen with a telescope. And if you\u2019re a Trekkie, you might recognize the name since it was where that major battle with the Borg took place (don\u2019t act like you don\u2019t know!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July of 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft made history when it became the first robotic explorer to conduct a flyby of Pluto. This was followed by another first, when the NASA mission conducted the first flyby of a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) on December 31st, 2018 \u2013 which has since been named Arrokoth. Now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}