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New high-resolution image of Pluto from New Horizons, showing jumbled blocks in the water-ice crust, which border the smooth nitrogen-ice plains. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI The New Horizons mission has already sent back phenomenal images and data from Pluto, but it keeps getting better. New images released today are the first in a series of […] 
An artist’s concept of a trans-Neptunian object beyond the Kuiper Belt. Astronomers have discovered a new such object half the size of Pluto, named V774104, which at a distance of 103 Astronomical Units away is the most distant Solar System object found to date. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Far from being an empty expanse of […] 
Slide from the DPS meeting showing possible ice volcanoes on Pluto. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Pluto is a small, cold world, but it is also turning out to be one of the most fascinating places in our Solar System – as reported today at the American Astronomical Society’s […] |
Next Launch PSN 6 / SpaceIL on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 22 Feb 19 at 1:45 GMT 21 Feb 19 at 8:45pm Eastern 
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