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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Pluto's mountains are capped with... methane snow?

Phil Plait

Oct 14, 2020

A color-enhanced mosaic of Pluto made from New Horizons images when it passed the icy world in 2015. Maybe I should make this a bumper sticker. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Pluto’s far side: Exploring the backside of a tiny iceworld

Phil Plait

Jul 10, 2020

A mosaic of Pluto made from New Horizons images. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: New Horizons

Did Pluto start hot or cold?

Phil Plait

Jun 22, 2020

A mosaic of Pluto made from New Horizons images. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: New Horizons

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Breathe easy: Pluto's atmosphere isn't about to collapse

Phil Plait

May 15, 2020

Pluto backlit by the Sun

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Pluto’s frozen heart could be causing all those strange formations on its surface

Elizabeth Rayne

Feb 5, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Now well beyond Pluto, New Horizons sees its next target

Phil Plait

Aug 29, 2018

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

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

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