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
7/24/15
What a spoilsport he is! Yes, @plutokiller is one of the people responsible for demoting Pluto from planetary status. Don't hold that against him - he's a good scientist. :)
From: Cstar1
7/25/15
Manually stitched mosaic by user Herobrine. Larger version here.
- Edited July 25, 2015 7:27 am by Cstar1
From: nnonbeliever
7/25/15
Want to see an explosion of capital in the space race, Announce that the golden hue of natural pics of Pluto are because the surface, at least, is 20% real gold dust.
From: Cstar1
7/25/15
One writer is calling it "Plutonic tar".
Organic Brown Gunk (Technical Term) Rains Out of Pluto's Surprising Atmosphere, Coloring the Planet's Surface - ImaGeo
I'm just catching up on some of the recent spectacular imagery of Pluto sent back by the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby, and this one really caught my eye. This beautiful image of sunlight streaming through the atmosphere was captured by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager instrument, known as LORRI.
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