The Final Place New Horizons Will Reach Before It Dies
Close your eyes and let your mind drift to the farthest point humanity has ever reached. A gentle journey into the final place New Horizons will ever visit before it falls silent. Launched in 2006, it explored Pluto and the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth, and is now over 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth. Its nuclear battery will likely keep it functioning until the late 2030s. The final place New Horizons will "reach" before it dies is the edge of our solar system, where it will eventually cross the heliopause and enter the interstellar medium. In this vast, dark void, it will drift…
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