{"id":108772,"date":"2020-06-16T20:43:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T03:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-horizons-conducts-the-first-interstellar-parallax-experiment"},"modified":"2020-06-16T20:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T03:43:06","slug":"new-horizons-conducts-the-first-interstellar-parallax-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-horizons-conducts-the-first-interstellar-parallax-experiment","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-horizons-conducts-the-first-interstellar-parallax-experiment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different positions than we\u2019d see from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>More than four billion miles from home and speeding toward interstellar space, NASA\u2019s New Horizons has traveled so far that it now has a unique view of the nearest stars. \u201cIt\u2019s fair to say that New Horizons is looking at an alien sky, unlike what we see from Earth,\u201d said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. \u201cAnd that has allowed us to do something that had never been accomplished before \u2014 to see the nearest stars visibly displaced on the sky from the positions we see them on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 22\u201323, the spacecraft turned its long-range telescopic camera to a pair of the \u201cclosest\u201d stars, Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, showing just how they appear in different places than we see from Earth. Scientists have long used this \u201cparallax effect\u201d \u2013 how a star appears to shift against its background when seen from different locations \u2014 to measure distances to stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different positions than we\u2019d see from Earth. More than four billion miles from home and speeding toward interstellar space, NASA\u2019s New Horizons has traveled so far that it now has a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108772","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}