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
7/14/15
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.
From: Jerry (coelacanth55)
7/16/15
I was a bit surprised and upset that the ABC evening news, the one that I usually watch, gave about 30 seconds to Pluto. But they had time for another Caitlyn Jenner story. I think Pluto deserves more time.