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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
7/14/15
#Plutoflyby closest approach is taking place in less than one hour!
I'm broadcasting the most interesting tweets in the Live Story at the top left of this forum. Stop in to see what's going on.
From: Cstar1
7/14/15
#Repost @nasawith @repostapp.
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SNEAK PEAK of gorgeous Pluto! The dwarf planet has sent a love note back to Earth via our New Horizons spacecraft, which has traveled more than 9 years and 3+ billion miles. This is the last and most detailed image of Pluto sent to Earth before the moment of closest approach - 7:49 a.m. EDT today. This image will be released and discussed at 8 a.m. EDT today. Watch our briefing live on NASA Television at: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv The high res pic will be posted on the web at: http://www.nasa.gov. 
This stunning image of the dwarf planet was captured from New Horizons at about 4 p.m. EDT on July 13, about 16 hours before the moment of closest approach. The spacecraft was 476,000 miles (766,000 kilometers) from the surface.
Image Credit: NASA
- Edited July 14, 2015 7:14 am by Cstar1
From: Cstar1
7/14/15
I just posted this one in the Live Story, but I have to make sure you all see this.
NASA Releases Stunning Color Images of Pluto and Charon
Holy moly what a press conference we just had here at Pluto central. Alan Stern unleashed his science officers with new images and new science, and the first to drop were the highest resolution color pics of Pluto and Charon yet. Each shows some pretty cool stuff.
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Holy cow.
From: Cstar1
7/14/15
New Horizons
New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity. These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charon-they are shown here in exaggerated colors that make it easy to note the differences in surface material and features on each planetary body.
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From: Cstar1
7/14/15
Yeah, I posted a similar one on the Live Story.
You might enjoy the Larry Niven short story I just posted too.
From: MobyD (Moby46)
7/14/15
I just read the Larry Niven story. It's an old one, and I've probably read it before, but a long time ago, so I'd forgotten.