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New Horizons: objeto del cinturón de Kuiper (obra de arte)
This is an artist's rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object – a city-sized icy relic left over from the birth of our solar system. The Sun, more than 4.1 billion miles (6.7 billion kilometers) away, shines as a bright star embedded in the glow o...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2014
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
- ID de archivo
- hubblesite-images-2014-29-3384-image
This is an artist's rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object – a city-sized icy relic left over from the birth of our solar system. The Sun, more than 4.1 billion miles (6.7 billion kilometers) away, shines as a bright star embedded in the glow of the zodiacal dust cloud. Jupiter and Neptune are visible as orange and blue "stars" to the right of the Sun.
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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI)Más imágenes de este periodo
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