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New Horizons Captures Goosebump-Inducing Image as It Approaches Milestone Distance From the Sun Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Southwest Research Institute With Pluto firmly in its rearview mirror, New Horizons is now hours away from reaching a milestone distance, in which the probe will be 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth. To commemorate the achievement, the spacecraft performed a task that had never been attempted before at the edge of the solar system. Advertisement At 8:42 p.m. EDT on Saturday April 17, New Horizons will be 50 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, in which 1 AU is ...

Close NASA has resumed communication with the record-setting orbital spacecraft after several months with no means of establishing contact with Voyager 2. (Photo : NASA-JPL/Caltech) This was Voyager 2 when it was being assembled at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida back in 1977. 40 years later, the spacecraft reached the edge of our solar system. The connectivity collapse, lasting almost eight months and a whole pandemic after March, was not attributed to any rogue fault, nor some outer space anomaly run-in (although there is that too). It was more of a case of regular ma...