The Coolest Images Taken by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft

A different view of stars

Two views of Proxima Centauri, the one on the left from New Horizons and the one on the right from Earth. Image: NASA

New Horizons is now so far away that its view of the stars is slightly different from our perspective on Earth. In 2020, side-by-side images revealed this in practice, showing Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 from the spacecraft’s point of view and from ours. New Horizons was 4.3 billion miles (6.9 billion km) from Earth when NASA ran this interstellar parallax experiment.

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