Tag: Kuiper Belt
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Best 2018 Pictures from Space
In the past, I’ve often featured a few amazing snapshots taken from Hubble, Chandra and the various space probes on this blog. It has…
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Meet Ultima Thule, New Horizons’ Next Target
Everybody remembers New Horizons, right? The probe, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in January 2006, did a truly historic flyby of Pluto on July 14,…
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New Horizons reaches the Kuiper Belt’s inner edge
After its historical fly-by of Pluto last year, New Horizons is now well on its way to explore more of the Kuiper Belt’s area…
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Pluto’s latest surprises
… If you have thought we were done with Pluto (who dares still calling it a dwarf, planet or anything?), well, get ready. NASA…
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Go, New Horizons, Go – The next target
Dust has not yet settled on Pluto’s amazing Flyby that New Horizons got more job to do. Or so it seems. In a way,…
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The end of an era of planetary exploration
Yes, you read it correctly. With New Horizon’s historical mission, the first era of planetary exploration – where we have explored all planets of…
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The (Seven) Wonders of the Solar System
I have read some days ago a nice article on IO9 discussing the Seven Wonders of the Solar System – from the original Seven Wonders…