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This tag is used to discuss exploration of objects in the Kuiper Belt, orbiting roughly between 30 and 50 AU from the Sun and strongly influenced by Neptune's gravity over long time scales. Pluto,plutinos, cubewanos and twotinos are included in this definition.
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What did New Horizons photograph that was close enough to be out of focus?
The picture below shows a Kuiper Belt object and a number of stars. It was recently taken by the New Horizons probe and published by NASA.
The arrow points at the KBO and the rest of the bright poi …
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What did New Horizons photograph that was close enough to be out of focus?
According to this blog post, the artefact was caused by scattered light reflected off some element inside the telescope.
The ghostly circular pupil image and the little dots that are moving around …
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