New Horizons’ next target caught making a star blink
Knowing object’s specs will help plan Pluto spacecraft’s 2019 flyby of MU69
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LYING IN WAIT The New Horizons team spread 24 of these small telescopes around southern Argentina to catch a cosmic coincidence.
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