Via space.com
New Dwarf Planet Discovered
Many space enthusiasts feel sorry for Pluto: it was reclassified as a dwarf planet and even used as a verb—”to pluto” something is to devalue and downgrade it. But new evidence suggests …
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Via nytimes.com
NASA’s Long-Awaited Image of Pluto
Nearly a decade ago, NASA launched its New Horizons spacecraft into space, tasked with exploring our vast solar system and sending information home. After over three billion miles of flight, it has …
Via npr.org
Pluto’s Wobbly Egg-Shaped Moons
Pluto is turning out be a weirder dwarf planet than expected. Not only is one of its moons almost as large as the planet itself, but its two other moons wobble through …