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NASA Space Probe Detects An 'Icy' Anomaly. Billion Kilometres Past Pluto
Just days ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has detected an anomaly related to its next flyby target -- an icy world a billion kilometres past Pluto and more than 6.5 billion km from Earth.
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NASA's New Horizons Hurtles Toward Historic New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule
Ultima Thule is named after a mythical, far-northern island in medieval literature and has its own rock anthem performed by Queen guitarist Brian May/
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NASA's New Horizons Spots Kuiper Belt Object as Next Flyby Target From Over 160 Million Kilometres Away
The New Horizons probe is set to encounter the Kuiper Belt object - nicknamed Ultima Thule - on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, 2019.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Set to Meet Next Flyby Target - a Kuiper Belt Object
It is heading towards its next target - 2014 MU69 - which is a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) and the probe will fly past it on January 1, 2019.
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New NASA Video Shows 'Landing' on Pluto
The video was created using over 100 images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft over six weeks of approach and close flyby in 2015.
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New Horizons' Last Bit Of Pluto Data Reaches Earth
It took more than a year but the last bits of science data from New Horizons' Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital recorders since July 2015 - arrived safely on Earth this week, NASA said.
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Origin Of Pluto's Huge 'Icy Heart' Found
Scientists have unveiled the origin of the large heart-shaped nitrogen glacier on Pluto spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of the icy-dwarf planet last year.
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NASA's New Horizons Mission To Travel Deeper Into Space
Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission will fly deeper into space towards an ancient object considered to be one of the early building blocks of the solar system.
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Pluto's Icy Heart Is Still 'Beating' Like A 'Cosmic Lava Lamp'
This time last year, space enthusiasts all over the world were eagerly awaiting photos of Pluto. As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zipped toward its July 2015 flyby of the Pluto system, every image it sent home was the best, clearest image we'd ever seen.
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Nasa's New Horizons Spots Kuiper Belt Object
Taken from the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, the images shatter New Horizons' own record for the closest-ever views of this KBO in November 2015.
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NASA Scientists Reveal Pluto And Its Moons
NASA scientists associated with interplanetary space probe New Horizons have revealed the former "astronomer's planet" and its "intriguing system of small moons" in a comprehensive set of papers describing results from last summer's Pluto system flyby.
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US Honours Pluto's Historic Flyby With Postal Stamps
The 2016 stamp series also has eight new colourful Forever stamps of Nasa images of solar system planets.
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NASA Releases the First Batch of its Sharpest Images of Pluto
The Pluto flyby was arguably the scientific highlight of 2015. In a way, it's fitting that these highest resolution images are coming in just as the year is coming to a close.
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First New Horizons Paper Reveals 'Fascinating' Pluto
Pluto is a "fascinating" world with a diverse range of landforms such as smooth plains, ice mountains and bladelike ridges, according to the first research paper from a flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
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Blue Skies, Frozen Water Detected on Pluto
Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Thursday from NASA's unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
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NASA Space Probe Detects An 'Icy' Anomaly. Billion Kilometres Past Pluto
Just days ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has detected an anomaly related to its next flyby target -- an icy world a billion kilometres past Pluto and more than 6.5 billion km from Earth.
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NASA's New Horizons Hurtles Toward Historic New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule
Ultima Thule is named after a mythical, far-northern island in medieval literature and has its own rock anthem performed by Queen guitarist Brian May/
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NASA's New Horizons Spots Kuiper Belt Object as Next Flyby Target From Over 160 Million Kilometres Away
The New Horizons probe is set to encounter the Kuiper Belt object - nicknamed Ultima Thule - on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, 2019.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Set to Meet Next Flyby Target - a Kuiper Belt Object
It is heading towards its next target - 2014 MU69 - which is a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) and the probe will fly past it on January 1, 2019.
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New NASA Video Shows 'Landing' on Pluto
The video was created using over 100 images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft over six weeks of approach and close flyby in 2015.
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New Horizons' Last Bit Of Pluto Data Reaches Earth
It took more than a year but the last bits of science data from New Horizons' Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital recorders since July 2015 - arrived safely on Earth this week, NASA said.
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Origin Of Pluto's Huge 'Icy Heart' Found
Scientists have unveiled the origin of the large heart-shaped nitrogen glacier on Pluto spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of the icy-dwarf planet last year.
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NASA's New Horizons Mission To Travel Deeper Into Space
Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission will fly deeper into space towards an ancient object considered to be one of the early building blocks of the solar system.
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Pluto's Icy Heart Is Still 'Beating' Like A 'Cosmic Lava Lamp'
This time last year, space enthusiasts all over the world were eagerly awaiting photos of Pluto. As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zipped toward its July 2015 flyby of the Pluto system, every image it sent home was the best, clearest image we'd ever seen.
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Nasa's New Horizons Spots Kuiper Belt Object
Taken from the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, the images shatter New Horizons' own record for the closest-ever views of this KBO in November 2015.
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NASA Scientists Reveal Pluto And Its Moons
NASA scientists associated with interplanetary space probe New Horizons have revealed the former "astronomer's planet" and its "intriguing system of small moons" in a comprehensive set of papers describing results from last summer's Pluto system flyby.
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US Honours Pluto's Historic Flyby With Postal Stamps
The 2016 stamp series also has eight new colourful Forever stamps of Nasa images of solar system planets.
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NASA Releases the First Batch of its Sharpest Images of Pluto
The Pluto flyby was arguably the scientific highlight of 2015. In a way, it's fitting that these highest resolution images are coming in just as the year is coming to a close.
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First New Horizons Paper Reveals 'Fascinating' Pluto
Pluto is a "fascinating" world with a diverse range of landforms such as smooth plains, ice mountains and bladelike ridges, according to the first research paper from a flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
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Blue Skies, Frozen Water Detected on Pluto
Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Thursday from NASA's unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
