{"id":108721,"date":"2020-06-15T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-horizons-is-so-far-from-earth-it-shows-us-how-stars-look-different-out-there"},"modified":"2020-06-15T20:09:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:09:23","slug":"new-horizons-is-so-far-from-earth-it-shows-us-how-stars-look-different-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-horizons-is-so-far-from-earth-it-shows-us-how-stars-look-different-out-there","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons Is So Far From Earth, It Shows Us How Stars Look Different Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-horizons-is-so-far-from-earth-it-shows-us-how-stars-look-different-out-there3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/121378\/nasas-new-horizons-zooms-by-pluto-solar-systems-last-planet-king-of-the-kuiper-belt\/\">July 2015<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/missions\/new-horizons\/in-depth\/\">New Horizons<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/141026\/the-pictures-are-here-new-horizons-close-up-view-of-2014-mu69\/\">31 December 2018<\/a> \u2013 which has since been named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/144028\/new-horizons-flyby-target-2014-mu69-gets-its-official-name-arrokoth\/\">Arrokoth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on the edge of the Solar System, New Horizons is still yielding some groundbreaking views of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 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 31 December 2018 \u2013 which has since been named Arrokoth. Now, on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108721","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\/108721","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}