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  1. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon im...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  2. I seem to be in a bit of a #space mood 🪐🔭 at the moment 😅, so I remembered that I once visited the #Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and wrote a short blog post about it. I thought I would share it again here:

    🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/202

    #Museum #SpacePhysics #PlanetaryScience #Astronomy #Aviation #Spaceflight #WashingtonDC #Voyager #NewHorizons #Apollo #ApolloMission #Soyuz #Moon

  3. 🌐Towards new Horizons of Scholarly Publishing

    Ramazan Turgut, #DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye is presenting at Towards new Horizons of Scholarly Publishing

    #DiamondOA #NewHorizons

    🗓️5-6 February
    📌Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

    horizondiamond.nl/#fourth

  4. 7 years ago, on New Year's Day, Jan 1, 2019, the NASA New Horizons spacecraft flew by the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft, the contact binary trans-Neptunian object 2014 MU6, now named Arrokoth.

    Arrokoth means "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquin language.

    New Horizons also saw evidence for methanol, water ice and organic molecules on the red surface of the 35 km Kuiper Belt object.

    pluto.jhuapl.edu/
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_A
    Also see fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/11168114

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  5. This potato looks exactly like the Kupier belt primordial contact MU69 Arrokoth

    #Space #NewHorizons #Astronomy #Potato

  6. So I finished this piece and the next day the New Horizons 3.0 update was revealed. And then I forgot to post this, whoops!

    I've been playing daily for about a month again and wanted to draw something comfy with one of my faves, Groucho 💙

    #art #digitalart #fanart #animalcrossing #newhorizons #groucho #bear #anthro #anthropomorphic #furry #fall #autumn #nintendo

  7. Redownloading Animal Crossing: New Horizons because in January the substantial update drops.

    I won't buy any of Nintendo's current offerings, but that doesn't stop me from still playing games on my owned system (until the day it either dies or cannot be repaired without high cost).

    I want to check out my island again and harvest Oranges and Apples that I got from a lovely Fediverse user, @mdmrn who helped me out!

    My villagers are going to be shocked as heck when they see me again. 😅

    While the download is going, I'll probably smash some Infected in the head...Dying Light: The Beast also had an update today.

    Yeah, I also play wildly violent games too...Not the standard cozy gaymer. LMAO

    #AnimalCrossing #NewHorizons #dyinglightTheBeast

  8. Frisch gebloggt: Animal Crossing 3.0

    Puh, ich weiß gar nicht, wie ich beginnen soll.Das Spiel Animal Crossing New Horizons hat mich die komplette Corona-Pandemie über begleitet und ich habe auch
    bastianoso.de/geschichten/anim

    #acnh #AnimalCrossing #Corona #NewHorizons #Pandemie #Update

  9. The last novel in the Grand Tour series by sci-fi master #BenBova is #Pluto, which reflects the latest discoveries from the #NASA #NewHorizons mission. As the author of "The Case for Pluto," I was tickled to talk with space scientist Les Johnson, who wrote the novel based on the notes that Bova left behind when he died. Give a listen to the #FictionScience podcast to get the full details. cosmiclog.com/2025/10/31/a-fic

  10. A fictional Grand Tour portrays Pluto as it really is
    NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has forced astronomers to rewrite their textbooks — but that's not all: New Horizons also forced Les Johnson to rewrite a novel.

    The space scientist was tasked with taking notes that the famed science-f
    cosmiclog.com/2025/10/31/a-fic
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #Charon #DwarfPlanets #FictionScience #NewHorizons #Pluto #ScienceFiction #Space

  11. "This spacecraft is so far away, it sees stars differently. Here's how it could help us navigate the cosmos" by BBC @skyatnightmag - Using parallax to compare different perspectives of telescopes on Earth and aboard the #NASA #NewHorizons probe in the #KuiperBelt, astronomers confirmed the stars Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 appear at slightly different but mathematically expected angles against more distant background stars. skyatnightmagazine.com/news/ne #astronomy #science

  12. The #NASA #NewHorizons program is an interstellar mission that launched the first-ever spacecraft to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons, completing the initial reconnaissance of the solar system's nine classical planets.

    After its successful Pluto flyby in 2015, the probe continued its journey to the Kuiper Belt, making a close flyby of the ancient object Arrokoth (2014 MU69), the most distant object ever explored up close.

    knowledgezone.co.in/trends/bro

  13. 🚀⚡ Pioneering Power in Deep Space:

    From Voyager’s grand tour to Curiosity’s Martian trek, Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) have quietly kept humanity’s farthest explorers alive by turning heat into electricity in the coldest and darkest reaches of space.

    📝 Explore more: TPC8.short.gy/D2Sl3pzA

    #SpaceExploration #NASA #RTG #DeepSpace #Voyager #Cassini #Curiosity #NewHorizons #Galileo #Ulysses #SeebeckEffect #Physics #Science #Cosmos #Electricity #Astronomy #TPC8

  14. Lovely intro by Tod Lauer

    noirlab.edu/public/blog/leavin

    to this paper

    Lauer et al (incl. @simonbp): "A Demonstration of Interstellar Navigation Using New Horizons"
    iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

    #NewHorizons

  15. We saw the heart of #Pluto 10 years ago—it’ll be a long wait to see the rest
    #NASA's #NewHorizons #spacecraft answered numerous questions about Pluto that have lingered since its discovery by #astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. As is often the case with planetary exploration, the results from New Horizons' flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, posed countless more questions. First and foremost, how did such a dynamic world come to be so far from the Sun?
    arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/

  16. 10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart

    Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker
    nasa.gov/image-article/10-year

    #NewHorizons #space #Pluto #heart #PlutoHeart #SputnikPlanitia #science #astrodon

  17. Me acaba de trollear el Animal Crossing?

    Hace semanas reventé un globo de esos que vienen con regalo, cayó en una zona inaccesible...

    Llevo viéndola ahí burlarse de mí desde entonces. Yo pensaba que en 3 dias o una semana despawnearía o algo, pero qué va.

    Por fin me dejan construir la escalerilla, lo primero que hago es ir a por esa caja...

    ERA UNA ESCALERA

    Que sea solo decorativa no lo hace menos cruel.

    #AnimalCrossing #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons #NewHorizons

  18. A Stereo3D view of Proxima Centauri and its star field

    To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.

    From New Horizons spacecraft (left eye) and Earth-based (right eye) observations.

    Credits: Tod Lauer et al
    arxiv.org/abs/2506.21666

    #NewHorizons #ProximaCentauri #Stereo3D #stereoscopy #spacecraft #space #Astronomy #Astrodon #stars #star #starfield #photography #astrophotography #Earth #science #arXiv

  19. 🌟 Happy Creativity & Wellbeing Week, 2025 🌟 As part of #CreativityandWellbeingWeek, we’re reflecting on the important ways museums and heritage learning contribute to mental wellbeing and social inclusivity. 🔗 To find out more, visit our website: gem.org.uk #creativehealth #newhorizons

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