Until NASA’s New Horizons enters the dwarf planet’s neighbourhood in 2015, we have very few images of Pluto and none that reveal any real visible detail. The gallery below will have to do until I’m able to update it a few years from now!
Pluto’s Fifth Moon Discovered
July 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It may not be a planet but Pluto commands enough gravitation force to hold at least five moons in orbit. Like its siblings Nix, Hydra, Charon and the yet to be named P4, the newly dubbed satellite P5 is tiny, only about 15 to 25 kilometers wide, but not so tiny that it wasn’t detected [...]
Hubble Reveals Pluto Anew
February 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
NASA released stunning new photos taken of the hotly-debated object at the edge of the solar system called Pluto, revealing the hazy atmosphere of the dwarf planet for the first time. At a distance of 39 AU and only 2,300 kilometers in diameter, Pluto has proven to be a very difficult object to photograph by [...]
Pluto’s Revenge
January 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
It has been three years since the International Astronomical Union issued a press release stating that they no longer considered Pluto one of the nine planets of the solar system and that they thought the whole world should follow suit in its thinking. That announcement has gone down in history as one of the least [...]
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