NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back Images of Parallax Effect Written 15 June 2020
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Artist’s depiction of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft | NASA
CNN reports that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, using “its unique vantage point 4.3 billion miles from Earth,” has “captured images of nearby stars – and the stars appear to be in different positions than where we see them from Earth.” The images represent the first time the “‘parallax effect’ has been captured using a spacecraft.”
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