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What’s that trippy haze on Pluto?

Elizabeth Rayne

Jan 31, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

New observations show the asteroid Hygiea is round!

Phil Plait

Oct 28, 2019

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An actual image of the protoplanet Hygiea, taken using the SPHERE camera on the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/P. Vernazza et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS)

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Pluto Demoted Day, 13 years later — do we want our former ninth planet back?

Elizabeth Rayne

Aug 24, 2019

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Tag: Science Behind the Fiction

Science Behind the Fiction: How Pluto made the solar system bigger

Cassidy Ward

Aug 24, 2019

Pluto and its moon Charon

Tag: Science Behind the Fiction

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Kuiper Belt

Help astronomers name a Trans-Neptunian Object! (225088) 2007 OR10 just doesn't cut it

Phil Plait

Apr 11, 2019

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Artwork depicting the Kuiper Belt Object (225088) 2007 OR10, the largest object in the solar system that still has not been named. Credit: Alex Parker via 2007or10.name

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Kuiper Belt

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: New Horizons

Here it is: The most detailed full image of MU69 from New Horizons we'll ever see.

Phil Plait

Feb 26, 2019

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The highest resolution image of the Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft minutes before closest encounter in 2019. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute, National Optical Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: New Horizons

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: New Horizons

UPDATE: Get ready for humanity's most distant encounter: 2014 MU69!

Phil Plait

Jan 1, 2019

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On August 16, 2018, the New Horizons spacecraft took an image of the star field where its target 2014 MU69 was predicted to be (left). On the right is the processed image showing the object. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: New Horizons

Pluto might actually have a shot at becoming a planet again

Elizabeth Rayne

Sep 10, 2018

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Now well beyond Pluto, New Horizons sees its next target

Phil Plait

Aug 29, 2018

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The icy object 2014 MU69 may be a binary, or even a contact binary, a double-lobed worldlet.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

We now have official high-resolution maps of Pluto and Charon

Phil Plait

Jul 13, 2018

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Actual images of Pluto and its large moon Charon, shown to scale and with correct contrast, from New Horizon observations. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Could there be a subsurface ocean on Pluto?

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 10, 2017

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: New Horizons

Help name a rock in the outer solar system!

Phil Plait

Nov 9, 2017

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Artwork showing New Horizons flying past MU69... or whatever it will be called by then. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: New Horizons

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Trans Neptunian Objects

A weird, distant potato-shaped world gets weirder: Haumea has rings!

Phil Plait

Oct 12, 2017

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Artwork depicting Haumea with its ring; the proportions shown are correct. Credit: Insituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Trans Neptunian Objects

What is it with those monster blades of ice on Pluto?

Elizabeth Rayne

Oct 1, 2017

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Pluto may not be a planet anymore, but it's getting a lander

Elizabeth Rayne

Sep 25, 2017

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