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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!
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10/17/15
First science results come in from New Horizons
New Horizons has been sending back stunning images of Pluto and its system for a while now. As we've collectively feasted on them, they've given researchers a chance to study the ex-planet and its satellites in unprecedented detail.
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12/5/15
NASA releases clearest images yet of Pluto - CNN.com
The images, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, show craters, mountains and glacial terrain along a strip 50 miles (80 kilometers) wide. The spacecraft took them in July during its closest flyby of Pluto --- which is at a distance from Earth that varies from 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) to 2.66 billion miles (4.28 billion kilometers) -- and they were among the most recent batch sent to back to our planet.
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