by Jonathan Nally | Oct 21, 2021 | Astronomy, Planets
Above: Now classed as a dwarf planet, Pluto was discovered in February 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Image credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/A. Parker. By David Ellyard AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE FINDING PLANETS by the hundred orbiting stars other than our own, it is worth recalling the...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 14, 2018 | News, Space missions
For a short time, this New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) frame of the ‘Wishing Well’ star cluster, taken December 5, 2017, was the farthest image ever made by a spacecraft, breaking a 27-year record set by Voyager 1. About two hours later, New...