Tag: Hubble

  • Last-ditch search finds fresh targets for New Horizons

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Scientists using the powerful Hubble Space Telescopes have identified three tiny objects at the frontier of the solar system that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft could visit after making an historic flyby of Pluto next…