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New Horizons Looking Back Towards Uranus (Artist’s Concept)

An illustration shows New Horizons spacecraft's view of the outer Solar System. On the black background of space, speckled with stars, the spacecraft is at the right. The spacecraft looks like a large radio dish, with the dish pointing left. Farther left, there are several narrow, concentric ovals showing the orbit of three labeled planets— Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

This illustration shows NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's view of our solar system from deep in the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons is currently at an estimated distance of more than 5 billion miles from Earth. The probe was 6.5 billion miles away from Uranus when it recently observed the planet. In this study, researchers used the gas giant as an exoplanet proxy, comparing high-resolution images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the smaller view from New Horizons to learn more about what to expect while imaging planets around other stars.

  • Release Date
    October 9, 2024
  • Science Release
    NASA’s Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus
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  • Credits
    NASA, ESA, Christian Nieves (STScI), Ralf Crawford (STScI), Gregory Bacon (STScI)

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A four-panel image. The top two panels are diagrams of Uranus – spheres with gridlines going longitudinally and latitudinally. On the top left, the view from Hubble, the southern pole of the planet faces 3 o'clock. On the top right, the view from New Horizons, the southern pole faces 10 o'clock. The bottom left panel is Hubble's actual view of Uranus – the planet is a light blue sphere, with a white circle covering the right half of the planet (the southern pole). The bottom right panel is the actual view of Uranus from New Horizons. The planet appears as a tiny whiteish dot.

Hubble and New Horizons Views of Uranus

In this image, two three-dimensional shapes (top) of Uranus are compared to the actual views of the planet from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (bottom left) and NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft (bottom right). These two missions recently simultaneously observed the gas giant ,...

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Last Updated
Mar 06, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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NASA, ESA, Christian Nieves (STScI), Ralf Crawford (STScI), Gregory Bacon (STScI)

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