New Horizons first experimentes with interstellar parallax
Just because, a shuttle has sent back photos of the sky from so distant that a few stars give off an impression of being in unexpected situations in comparison to we'd see from Earth.
In excess of four billion miles from home and speeding toward interstellar space, NASA's New Horizons has voyage so far that it currently has an interesting perspective on the closest stars. "It's fair to say that New Horizons is looking at an alien sky, unlike what we see from Earth," said Alan Stern, New Horizons head agent from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. "And that has allowed us to do something that had never been accomplished before—to see the nearest stars visibly displaced on the sky from the positions we see them on Earth."
On April 22-23, the shuttle turned its long-ru...
