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Big Discovery from NASA’s New Horizons; Pluto is Biggest Kuiper Belt Body

Plutophiles everywhere rejoice. On the eve of history’s first ever up close flyby of mysterious Pluto on Tuesday morning July…

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Chasms, craters, and a dark north polar region are revealed in this image of Pluto’s largest moon Charon taken by…

9 years ago

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Countdown to discovery! Not since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune in 1989 have we flung a probe into the frozen…

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New Horizons' last look at Pluto's Charon-facing hemisphere reveals the highest resolution view of four intriguing darks spots for decades…

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Bit by the Pluto bug? Day by day, new images appear showing an ever clearer view of a world we inexplicably love. Call…

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The Huge Heart of Pluto Pluto’s “Heart” is seen in this new image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager…

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Latest color image of Pluto taken on July 3, 2015 shows 4 mysterious dark spots. Best yet image of Pluto…

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You're probably as eager as I am for new images of Pluto and Ceres as both New Horizons and Dawn…

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Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week we welcome Paul Sutter, the CCAPP Visiting Fellow who works on the…

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The latest set of images from the long range imager, LORRI, on New Horizons now reveals surface features. At a…

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