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What NASA’s New Horizons Photographed on Pluto

When NASA’s New Horizons probe finally flew past Pluto, the images it sent back completely changed how we see this tiny world ...
Iowa Public Radio

Pluto isn’t a planet — but it gives us clues for how the solar system formed

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

How Pluto captured a moon almost its own size

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...
NPR

Pluto isn't a planet — but it gives us clues on how the solar system formed

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...