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For the first time ever, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different positions than we'd see from Earth. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft observed interstellar parallax from the outer reaches of the solar system, 7 B kilometers from home.


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