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The New Horizons Team Publishes the first Kuiper Belt Object Flyby Science Results

by José Joaquin Galánviernes, mayo 17, 2019

Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule). Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Resear...Read More

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Ultima Thule, a flatter world than imagined

by José Joaquin Galánsábado, febrero 09, 2019

New Horizons took this image of the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) on Jan. 1, 2019, when the NASA spacecraft wa...Read More

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Best-Yet View of Ultima Thule by New Horizons

by José Joaquin Galánviernes, enero 25, 2019

Ultima Thule. Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institut The wonders – an...Read More

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A New Movie Shows Ultima Thule Approach by New Horizons

by José Joaquin Galánviernes, enero 25, 2019

The propeller-like rotation of Ultima Thule. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institut...Read More

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Latest discoveries from NASA's New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule

by José Joaquin Galánmartes, enero 08, 2019

The New Horizons science team created the first stereo image pair of Ultima Thule. This image can be viewed with stereo glasses to reveal...Read More

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New Horizons’s view of Ultima Thule takes us back to the origin of the Solar System

by José Joaquin Galánjueves, enero 03, 2019

The first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) at 4:08 Universal Time on January 1, 2019,...Read More

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New Horizons Successfully Explores Ultima Thule

by José Joaquin Galánmiércoles, enero 02, 2019

At left is a composite of two images taken by New Horizons' high-resolution Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), which provides ...Read More

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New Horizons probe on course for historic flyby

by José Joaquin Galánjueves, diciembre 27, 2018

Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft flying by a possible binary 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) This New Year's Eve. Image credi...Read More

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Ultima in View: NASA’s New Horizons Detects its Flyby Target of Kuiper Belt

by José Joaquin Galánjueves, agosto 30, 2018

The figure on the left is a composite image produced by adding 48 different exposures from the News Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Ima...Read More