Galaxies Astronomy Club
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We keep our star talk down to earth! Beginning stargazers, professional astronomers, armchair astronauts and the cosmologically curious are all invited to join us. Galaxies Astronomy Club was founded in 1994.
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New Horizons Is Awake At Pluto The Planets + Pluto!
From: Cstar1
2/28/15
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SpaceAstronomer @SpaceAstronomer Today's best image of Pluto & equivalent view of Earth @NewHorizons2015. http://bit.ly/1JUICpV RT @coreyspowell
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From: Cstar1
5/8/15
Pluto-bound craft hunts for hazardous moons
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Steve Gribben On 11 May, a telescope aboard a NASA craft will turn and stare at Pluto - like a space-robot equivalent of a sailor watching for shoals that could take out his vessel. As the New Horizons craft hurtles towards its 14 July rendezvous with Pluto, mission scientists are preparing to guide it through what could be a dangerous dusty realm.
Read more from Nature News & Comment
From: Cstar1
5/15/15
Impending Pluto visit is the first encounter with a new class of worlds?
May 11, Astronomy & Space/Space Exploration The sun shines wanly through Pluto's thin atmosphere, illuminating its mysterious layered ices. Since the New Horizons probe to Pluto was launched, scientists have come to understand that Pluto orbits in the Kuiper Belt, a region of innumerable small icy comet-like bodies and small or dwarf planets at the solar system's outer edge, which was discovered in 1992.
Read more from Phys
From: Cstar1
5/29/15
THIS JUST RELEASED! Images Showing New Details on Pluto from New Horizons! http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150527 …
From: Cstar1
5/31/15
"Pluto is the 1st encounter by a craft going to discover th REST of th solar system!-PaulGasek http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
- Edited May 31, 2015 11:33 am by Cstar1
From: Cstar1
6/5/15
'Dear Pluto': Campaign Asks Kids to Say 'Hi' to Dwarf Planet
Artist's illustration showing NASA's New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon. Kids around the world can say hello to Pluto ahead of the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet this summer. A campaign called "Dear Pluto" is asking children to submit greetings to the dwarf planet, both in written and video form.
Read more from Space.com
From: Cstar1
6/5/15
7 Wild Myths About Pluto
Faraway Pluto is difficult to study from Earth, so the dwarf planet has remained largely mysterious to scientists and laypeople alike since its discovery in 1930. But Pluto is about to get its first close-up. On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zoom just 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) from the dwarf planet, capturing supersharp images of its frigid surface.
Read more from Space.com