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NASA New Horizons posts closest image of Pluto on Twitter
“Hello #Pluto! We’re at closest approach. Congrats to all! Follow our story & view new images using #PlutoFlyby.”
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Ideaz : From Pluto with Love - Confessions of a dwarf planet
Pluto is a dwarf planet now, but pluto has a heart and still loves us. New Horizons saw pluto's love for us today
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Latest from New Horizons: Pluto
Newly released photo from New Horizons yesterday's flyby
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Latest from New Horizons: Charon
Newly released photo from New Horizons yesterday flyby
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Pluto Up Close
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Views of Pluto Through the Years
This animation combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades.
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July 15th 2015, Atlas V launch @ Cape Canaveral
I'm just here to share this little snippet of awe with you. I hope you can appreciate it as much as I did.
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New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
In the latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes.
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Soar Over Pluto's Heart at 77,000 Kilometers in This New Animation
This animated flyover of the Norgay mountains and Sputnik plains on Pluto are based on the freshly-delivered close-approach images from the New Horizons flyby. See features just a single kilometre big as you experience what it would be like to hitch a ride on the spacecraft as it skimmed past the dwarf planet.
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New Pluto Photos Show ‘Astoundingly Amazing’ Landscape
More images from this week's New Horizons mission are forcing scientists to rethink how icy worlds work.
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Clouds of Jupiter
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The Messier Catalog for Backyard Astronomers
In 1771 Charles Messier and his assistant Pierre Méchain published a catalog of objects they had found while searching for comets. His catalog was intended to help other comet hunters avoid these objects, little did he know that his list would become one of the most popular guides to backyard astronomers hundreds of years later. Most of these images show how the M objects would appear in a 4" telescope.
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Astronomy Picture Of the Day, July 20: Comet PanSTARRS and the Crescent Moon
Photo by Yuri Beletsky
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M4 (NGC 6121)
M4 is a globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius. It is fairly close to us at about 7000 light years and is home to many white dwarfs as well as a planet, PSR B1620-26 b.
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Inside the Imhotep region of Comet 67P, as imaged by Rosetta
Tour one of the most geologically diverse regions on Rosetta’s comet
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Pluto's moons Hydra and Nix
Newly arrived pics from New Horizons
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NASA’s New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’
Newly received pics
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River of Smoke
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of a river of smoke passing over the Greenland Sea. The smoke most likely arose from fires in Canada and Alaska.
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Stunning Nightside Image Reveals Pluto’s Hazy Skies
(July 24th New) Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.
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Pluto’s Breathtaking Farewell to New Horizons
Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on July 15.
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