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Watch: NASA celebrates 50 years of planetary science awesomeness
https://youtu.be/-yyzw45ouPQ On July 14, 2015, New Horizons will take the first close-up pictures of Pluto, exactly 50 years to the day after Mariner 4 flew by Mars and took the first close-up pictures...
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Close-up images of Charon, Pluto's mysterious moon
A cold and distant place, imaged for the first time from a distance seemingly within reach. (more…)
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Pluto and other known “not-planets” in our solar system mapped in scale image...
[caption id="attachment_405613" align="alignnone" width="840"] Montage by Emily Lakdawalla. [/caption] “Now that I have a reasonable-resolution global color view of Pluto,” writes Emily Lakdawalla, “I...
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NASA Ground team stands by for Pluto fly-by confirmation signal from New...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is expected to radio home any minute now. We're watching on NASA TV. The moment will end a nearly 22-hour radio blackout as the probe focused on a series of close-up...
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft phones home from Pluto, and all is “nominal”
[caption id="attachment_405722" align="alignnone" width="1353"] “We are in lock with telemetry on the spacecraft,” operations manager Alice Bowman said at the New Horizons Mission Operations...
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This little cartoon captures all of Pluto's lonely feels, as New Horizons...
Aww. Poor little Pluto. (more…)
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Pluto fly-by immortalized in 4 perfect frames by Cyanide & Happiness webcomic
A wonderful “Aww, poor Pluto” take by webcomic creator Rob DenBleyker. Link. Won't someone think of the poor exoplanets? Holy shit you guys, NASA threw a robot toward the ass end of the solar system...
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Live coverage of Pluto image press conference with NASA New Horizons team
IMAGES Breaking news from Nasa: here are the first close-up details from the surface of Pluto, our solar system's most distant planet. Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Here's Pluto's moon Hydra, imaged...
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NASA rock-teases us with tantalizing up-close Pluto shot
At a press conference this afternoon, NASA revealed the first close-up details of the surface of Pluto. (more…)
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Fly over Pluto in animated New Horizons video. Here are the amazing images...
NASA released more amazing space imagery and scientific data, slowly and steadily coming down to earth from the New Horizons space probe after its historic fly-by of Pluto. Boing Boing followed the...
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National Geographic's Pluto issue, autographed by NASA's New Horizons team
Susan Goldberg: “How cool is this? The @NASANewHorizons #Pluto team autographed our fab July @NatGeo cover, written by @nadiamdrake.” More: Pluto coverage on Boing Boing.
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NASA unveils gorgeous new false-color image of Pluto
[caption id="attachment_408634" align="alignnone" width="1041"] NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI[/caption] It may be 'shopped, and we can tell by the pixels, but it's just the most beautiful image of Pluto mankind...
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How to name an exoplanet, by XKCD
Randall Munroe has a hot take on the recent space news around Kepler 452-B and Pluto. (more…)
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Dark Side of the Pluto revealed in new NASA image from New Horizons mission
[caption id="attachment_408644" align="alignnone" width="1920"] NASA[/caption] Today, NASA's New Horizons mission team revealed a slew of new data including this breathtaking “farewell” to our...
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Dark Side of the Pluto
[caption id="attachment_408936" align="alignnone" width="1568"] 'shooped by Xeni.[/caption] Just made this quick 'shoop of the first thing that came into my head when I saw this amazing Pluto image...
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How "real" are images of Pluto?
Images of celestial bodies are not typically photographed in the same way as, say, your cat. Wired's Jenna Garrett explains the complexity—and authenticity—of the technology that captures Pluto for...
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Fantastic video of Pluto fly-by made from still images
Astronomical artist Björn Jónsson stitched together still images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past the dwarf planet Pluto last month. (more…)
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New close-ups from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show off Pluto's mysterious...
[caption id="attachment_420607" align="alignnone" width="930"] NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute[/caption] The New Horizons spacecraft sent back new...
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Pluto's equator is covered in skyscraper-sized methane ice blades
As NASA continues to examine the treasure trove of data from the New Horizons project, one interesting phenomenon at Pluto's equator has been identified as massive ice blades made of methane. (more…)
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