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Is there an ocean below Sputnik Planum on Pluto? The unusually smooth 1000-km wide golden expanse, visible in the featured image from New Horizons, appears segmented into convection cells. But how was this region created? One hypothesis now holds the answer to be a great impact that stirred up an underground ocean of salt water roughly 100-kilometers thick. The featured image of Sputnik Planum, part of the larger heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio, was taken last July and shows true details in exaggerated colors. Although the robotic New Horizons spacecraft is off on a new adventure, continued computer-modeling of this surprising surface feature on Pluto is likely to lead to more refined speculations about what lies beneath. via NASA ift.tt/2ghUTco
The telescope at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona that was used to discover Pluto, currently classified as dwarf planet in the Solar System. Formally known as the Lawrence Lowell Telescope, it is a 13-inch aperture refracting telescope. lowell.edu/discover/telescopes-exhibits/pluto-discovery-t...
Fourth in a series of seven Mickey Mouse-related photos.
Pluto is Mickey Mouse's loyal pet dog who was first introduced in 1930.
Featured as a "colour of the week" shot at the Color My World Daily group.
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A portrait from the final approach. Pluto and Charon display striking color and brightness contrast in this composite image from July 11, showing high-resolution black-and-white LORRI images.
J'ai craqué pour le tae de la série steampunk eclypse. Vous l'aurez compris, il rejoint l'équipage de mon vaisseau steam le "Time slider". J'ai vraiment craqué sur son make-up très fin, j'ai halluciné quand j'ai ouvert la boîte, mes photos ne lui rendent malheureusement pas justice mais c'est un superbe taeyang.
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Pluto is always ready to pose for the camera at Goofy's Kitchen at Disneyland Hotel.
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Das 56 Meter hohe Doppelbock Fördergerüst der Zeche Pluto Schacht III in Herne (Wanne-Eickel). Fotos entstanden im Februar 2021. Nach Abriss der Schachthalle.
I was inspired to take this pair of photos depicting Pluto's movement over a 24 hour period as far back as perhaps 2nd grade when I read about how Clyde Tombaugh made the original discovery photographs in 1930. Just to make it challenging enough, I tried it with my TeleVue NP101is. I really didn't think that this was possible! I verified Pluto's location for both date's photos in Stellarium, just to be sure.
Major take away - even a small 4" telescope can do some amazing astronomy!
TeleVue NP101is with Canon EOS 60Da,
This was meant to be an attempt to draw some dunes and mountains on Pluto based on some of the imagery sent back by New Horizons. I don't think it turned out very well.
I think I'm just going to upload this here to remind myself that if I have a bad composition, I should figure that out before I try to work on a bunch of details.
A backlit Pluto imaged by New Horizons' LORRI instrument on July 15, 2015 from a distance of about 775,000 km (481,000 miles).
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Pluto Basil is Greek, it has a very spicy flavour and really tastes good added to some dishes.
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Stacked, sharpened & artificially-coloured image of Pluto and Charon based on 3 raw images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 7, 2015.
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute, Processed by Andrew Symes.
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Edited New Horizons image of Pluto in "false color" (meaning the colors were derived not necessarily from visible reflected light but filtered to highlight certain minerals and then combined into an RGB image by NASA).
Description:OpNav Campaign 4, LORRI 1X1
Time:2015-07-12
Exposure:100 msec
Target:PLUTO
Range:2.5M km
Credit: 2015 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
Enhanced RGB (Blue, Red and NIR filters) / Crop
Pluto taken by New Horizons spacecraft
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (New Horizons – MVIC); calibrated FITS via NASA PDS Small Bodies Node/Thomas Thomopoulos
Enhanced RGB (Blue, Red and NIR filters)
Pluto taken by New Horizons spacecraft
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (New Horizons – MVIC); calibrated FITS via NASA PDS Small Bodies Node/Thomas Thomopoulos
NASA image release July 11, 2012
A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.
The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across. It is in a 58,000-mile-diameter circular orbit around Pluto that is assumed to be co-planar with the other satellites in the system.
“The moons form a series of neatly nested orbits, a bit like Russian dolls,” said team lead Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
The discovery increases the number of known moons orbiting Pluto to five.
The Pluto team is intrigued that such a small planet can have such a complex collection of satellites. The new discovery provides additional clues for unraveling how the Pluto system formed and evolved. The favored theory is that all the moons are relics of a collision between Pluto and another large Kuiper belt object billions of years ago.
The new detection will help scientists navigate NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft through the Pluto system in 2015, when it makes an historic and long-awaited high-speed flyby of the distant world.
The team is using Hubble’s powerful vision to scour the Pluto system to uncover potential hazards to the New Horizons spacecraft. Moving past the dwarf planet at a speed of 30,000 miles per hour, New Horizons could be destroyed in a collision with even a BB-shot-size piece of orbital debris.
“The discovery of so many small moons indirectly tells us that there must be lots of small particles lurking unseen in the Pluto system,” said Harold Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
“The inventory of the Pluto system we're taking now with Hubble will help the New Horizons team design a safer trajectory for the spacecraft,” added Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., the mission’s principal investigator.
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was discovered in 1978 in observations made at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Hubble observations in 2006 uncovered two additional small moons, Nix and Hydra. In 2011 another moon, P4, was found in Hubble data.
Provisionally designated S/2012 (134340) 1, the latest moon was detected in nine separate sets of images taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 on June 26, 27, 29, and July 7 and 9.
In the years following the New Horizons Pluto flyby, astronomers plan to use the infrared vision of Hubble’s planned successor, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, for follow-up observations. The Webb telescope will be able to measure the surface chemistry of Pluto, its moons, and many other bodies that lie in the distant Kuiper Belt along with Pluto.
The Pluto Team members are M. Showalter (SETI Institute), H.A. Weaver (Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University), and S.A. Stern, A.J. Steffl, and M.W. Buie (Southwest Research Institute).
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A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reported the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto on this day in 2012. The discovery increased the number of known moons orbiting Pluto to five.
The team was using Hubble’s powerful vision to scour the Pluto system to uncover potential hazards to the New Horizons spacecraft. Moving past the dwarf planet at a speed of 30,000 miles per hour, New Horizons could have been destroyed in a collision with even a BB-shot-size piece of orbital debris.
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was discovered in 1978 in observations made at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Hubble observations in 2006 uncovered two additional small moons, Nix and Hydra. In 2011 another moon, P4, was found in Hubble data.
Provisionally designated S/2012 (134340) 1, the latest moon was detected in nine separate sets of images taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 on June 26, 27, 29, and July 7 and 9.
Credit: NASA/ESA/M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
Image Number: ID 2012-32
Date: July 11, 2012