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Latest Pluto images from 13.5M km: more surface details come into view
New Horizons is approaching Pluto at a speed of more than 1 million kilometers per day. The spacecraft will still need about 9 days to cover more than 13M kilometers before the historical flyby. The...
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Pluto from 12.5M km
Great news! New Horizons is back to operations after the issue that affected its main computer a couple of days ago. Today the New Horizons team published a set of pictures taken on Jul 3 (before the...
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Ceres on Jun 18, from an altitude of 4,400 kilometers
Processed image of Ceres, taken by the Dawn spacecraft on Jun 18, 2015. The surface is distant 4400 km and the resolution of the image is about 410 meters per pixel. The crater with bright borders has...
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Latest NewHorizons image of Pluto and Charon…with background stars!
Finally! On Jul 7 at 22.41 UTC New Horizons captured the first images of Pluto and Charon after the computer problem that affected the probe on Jul 4. After the approximately 5 hours to travel to Earth...
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Beautiful surface textures: Dawn image of Ceres taken on Jun 22
Click image to enlarge: Beautiful textures of Ceres surface. Image captured on jun 22, 2015. Click image to enlarge
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Pluto showing more details from 5.4M km
This image is not new at all, and of course is not the best one that has been published, but it was just impossible to resist playing with the latest published images from New Horizons and creating our...
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C/2015 O1, an interesting and promising new comet
The newly discovered comet C/2015 O1 PANSTARRS has just been added to our catalog of tracked objects. Right now the comet is very far, about magnitude 18.8 at a distance of 987M km from the Sun and it...
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Pluto’s backlit image and a possible star occultation
Few hours ago NASA released a bunch of new images of Pluto received from New Horizons. Three of those images show a breathtaking backlit picture of Pluto and clearly put in evidence the dwarf planet’s...
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The Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Ganimede and Callisto Captured in a Single Shot
This image taken the the morning of Nov 7, 2015 at 4:19 UT portraits the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Ganimede and Callisto in a single shot. The Moon, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Nov 7, 2015 4:19 UT...
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Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) on Nov 8, 2015
Image of Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) captured on Nov 8, 2015 between 3:00 and 4:00 UT. Image taken with a 17 inches telescope for a total exposure time of approximately 50 minutes. Comet C/2015 V2...
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