NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus

Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, S. Hasler (MIT), A. Simon (GSFC), New Horizons Planetary Science Theme Team; Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI), J. Olmstead (STScI)

In this image, two three-dimensional shapes (top) of Uranus are compared to the actual views of the planet from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (bottom left) and NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft (bottom right). These two missions recently simultaneously observed the gas giant, comparing high-resolution images from Hubble to the smaller view from New Horizons. This combined perspective will help researchers learn more about what to expect while imaging planets around other stars with future observatories.

« NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus

Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Hasler (MIT), C. Nieves (STScI), R. Crawford (STScI), G. Bacon (STScI)

This illustration shows NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's view of our solar system from deep in the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons is currently at an estimated distance of more than 5 billion miles from Earth. The probe was 6.5 billion miles away from Uranus when it recently observed the planet. In this study, researchers used the gas giant as an exoplanet proxy, comparing high-resolution images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the smaller view from New Horizons to learn more about what to expect while imaging planets around other stars.

« NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus

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