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New Horizons Parallax Program, Celest

New Horizons Parallax Program

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This April, New Horizons was more than 46 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, having traveled more than 5 billion miles since launch. At this great distance, from New Horizons' view, the nearest stars will appear to have shifted in position relative to more distant stars, compared to where we see them from Earth.

On April 22 2020, New Horizons gathered image of Wolf 359 - The eighth-nearest star to Earth, at a distance of 7.86 light years. At same time, I took images of this star from Earth.

Images from New Horizons are published on http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Learn/Parallax/Parallax-Images.php by NASA.

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New Horizons Parallax Program, Celest