06-10-2024, 02:29 PM
While spacecraft has whizzed away at 300 million miles/year, the New Horizons team has continued to collect data about Kuiper Belt. What's more, using Japanese Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, New Horizon's scientists detected a population of previously unknown cosmic objects. The group could be sprawled out to almost 90 times as far as Earth is from sun, according to a recent paper published in Planetary Science Journal.
(The discovery suggests Kuiper Belt may span much farther once thought), or there is perhaps another such belt even farther away than one scientists have known about since 1990s. New finding could mean spacecraft has a longer journey ahead — scale of billions of more miles — before it gets to interstellar space, the place outside the region affected by the sun’s constant flow of material.
https://sea.mashable.com/space/34506/nas...d-the-edge
(The discovery suggests Kuiper Belt may span much farther once thought), or there is perhaps another such belt even farther away than one scientists have known about since 1990s. New finding could mean spacecraft has a longer journey ahead — scale of billions of more miles — before it gets to interstellar space, the place outside the region affected by the sun’s constant flow of material.
https://sea.mashable.com/space/34506/nas...d-the-edge