This wonderful gif image has created a fever in the science and astronomy circles
This gif image is more "magic" than anything you've ever seen on the Internet. Because this is NASA's next target moment, the New Horizons mission, will collect data on the solar system rock that obscures a star seen from Earth.
The event was in the early morning of July 17 even in a split second, but it would provide more information about this rock than the data was previously collected.All thanks to a dark shadow across our planet . NASA's planetary science director, Jim Green, said: 'This is a lifelong obstacle to the Earth'.
NASA also could not determine the shape of this object.
Kuiper Belt (KBO) object is called 2014 MU69 . Scientists predict that it has a diameter of about 22 to 40 km, but no one can know for sure because it is too far and faint. It revolves around the Sun 40 times faster than Earth.
NASA also could not determine the shape of this object. It was a remnant fragment in the formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago, but its main characteristics were an unanswered unknown. Many scientists think it is a dark red place, while many people think it is like a gray planet.
New Horizons will fly across objects on January 1, 2019. Earlier, the team wanted to collect as much data about MU69 as possible. In that way, NASA can fully explain why this 'obscure' event is so important.
See the star hidden?
This is the third obscure event in the universe, previously on June 3 and 10. This time, at least five mobile telescopes in Argentina saw shadows of objects across the Earth, and that is the basis of data about this object. Other telescopes have also observed the object, including NASA's SOFIA observatory.
Alan Stern, lead researcher of the New Horizons mission, said his team hopes to collect the first few results in the coming weeks after the series.'We have seen the shape and size of 2014 MU69 for the first time. It can be said that this is a scientific treasure named Kuiper Belt that we will discover in the next 17 months. Thanks to this success, we have full confidence to plan for the upcoming flight, ' he announced.
'And we did it!'
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