What is horizons today

It is just the 5 th spacecraft to reach that distance, joining the Voyagers 1 and 2 and the Pioneers 10 and This summer, it will be six years since New Horizons made its flyby of Pluto and its system of Moons in July of To celebrate the achievement of reaching this new distance marker, scientists sent instructions a few months ago to New Horizons to attempt to image the location of another deep space traveler, Voyager 1, which is now in interstellar space.

Converting the AU scale to one we are more familiar with, New Horizons is now almost 5 billion miles 7. This means communicating with the spacecraft takes a lot of time. At the time of the Pluto flyby, two-way communication between New Horizons and Earth required a nine-hour round trip — 4. This 3d orbit diagram is a feature of our 3D Solar System Simulator and shows the orbit of New Horizons with respect of the Sun and the orbits of the major planets. The position of New Horizons and the planets along their orbits in this diagram accurately represents the current configuration of the objects in the Solar System.

This is an experimental feature and it requires a WebGL enabled browser. Please provide us feedback! The following table lists the ephemerides of New Horizons computed for the past and next 7 days, with a 24 hours interval.

Click on each row of the table to locate New Horizons in our Online Planetarium at the chosen date. Latest Perseverance Images received 6 hours 25 mins ago for Sol This site cannot run without your voluntary donations. We don't use Ads. If you find this website useful please consider a small donation, it will help covering hosting costs.

Thank you! If you have any feedback, please get in contact. Space Probes ». Constellation Sagittarius. See also New Horizons rise and set times. Go to interactive sky chart. Position and finder charts see also Where is New Horizons? Rise and set times see also When does New Horizons rise and set?

Interactive orbit visualization. Table showing celestial coordinates and magnitude of New Horizons for the past and next 7 days. Interactive sky chart. An online planetarium application that shows where to locate New Horizons in the sky from your location. Live position tracker.