New Horizons and Parallax


These composite images each show a star (Wolf 359 on the left; Proxima Centauri on the right) each simulataneously seen from two points separated by 46AU, the Earth and the New Horizons probe. The two stars appear to move with respect to the very distant background stars.

Credit: Wolf: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/University of Louisville/Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Mt. Lemmon Observatory; Proxima: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Las Cumbres Observatory/Siding Spring Observatory/Edward Gomez Nature