... Comet PanSTARRS, Moon, and Venus . ... After grazing the western horizon on northern summer evenings Comet PanSTARRS (also known as C/2014 Q1) climbed higher in southern winter skies. ... It took 9.5 years to get this close, but you can now take a virtual flight over Pluto in this animation of image data from the New Horizons spacecraft. ... Charon . ... New Horizons has survived its close encounter with Pluto and has resumed sending back images and data. ... New Horizons Passes Pluto and Charon . ...