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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.

New Horizons Looking Back Towards Uranus (Illustration)

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.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Christian Nieves (STScI), Ralf Crawford (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI)
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Image CreditNASA, ESA, Christian Nieves (STScI), Ralf Crawford (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI)
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