"Amateur Astronomers Join New Horizons in Capturing Uranus and Neptune"

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is teaming up with the Hubble Space Telescope to capture images of Uranus and Neptune from its position in the outer solar system. Situated in the Kuiper Belt, over 5 billion kilometers away from Earth, this collaboration aims to provide fresh insights into the atmospheres and energy dynamics of these distant planets. The focus will be on their atmospheres and the transfer of heat from their rocky cores. Amateur astronomers worldwide are invited to participate in this historic moment, contributing to space science. The images will be publicly available in late September, and the team expects to receive them from the spacecraft by the end of 2023.