Pictured is a screenshot of NASA's visualizations of the space environment simulation.

(NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center)

In a new video released by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, simulations show experienced between January and August on its way to Pluto.

The list of space weather factors New Horizons endured included a string of solar winds and some curious particle clouds that were showing some odd behavior.

The clouds, known as coronal mass ejections, can be seen around Earth. What surprised scientists was that as the spacecraft reahed Pluto, that we’re used to seeing near Earth, Gizmodo reports. Rather, the clouds were stretched into a thin, ring-like shape like you see in the visualization.

(More:)

In order to map the expected environment near Pluto, scientists compiled the predictions of numerous models, taking into consideration the events that had long since proceeded Earth. "We set the simulation to start in January of 2015, because the particles passing Pluto in July 2015 took some six months to make the journey from the sun," said Dusan Odstrcil, a space weather scientist at Goddard and creator of the Enlil model.

(More:)

The Enlil model is one of the primary models used to predict the space environment surrounding Earth and is the base of the New Horizons information.

Having a better understanding of the surrounding space environment will ultimately help , according to The Watchers, a local news agency.

MORE ON WEATHER.COM: Space Photos of the Year 2015

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this close-up image of an outburst on the sun's surface, between Nov. 3-5, 2015. Though the sun’s extreme ultraviolet light is invisible to our eyes, the wavelength is colorized here in red. (NASA/SDO)