Tag Archives: Kuiper belt

New Horizons is Less than One Million Miles Away from Pluto

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is only one day away from the historic July 14 Pluto flyby. The spacecraft is continuing to transmit photos of Pluto's surface as it approaches. Each series of photos...

New Pluto Images of New Horizons Show Mountains

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Planet Pluto comes into focus for the first time in human history. New Horizons' latest images reveal an intriguing new world with distinct surface features, including an immense dark band known as...

Pluto is in Love Showing a Giant Heart

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Summary for the busy GeekPlanet Pluto loves us earthlings and shows a giant heart on the surface. NASA has released a new image sent by the New Horizons that is the closest yet. It was taken after...

NASA Probe Sets Out for Pluto

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It hasn't happened yet, but any minute, a small probe will land on Pluto. This probe, which has travelled over 3.6 billion miles, will give us breathtaking views of the smallest planet that we have...

New Horizons Confirms Methane on Pluto with Ralph

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Astronomers knew that there is methane on Pluto since the 70s. Now the New Horizons spacecraft has detected frozen methane to confirm the observations made decades ago. “We already knew there...

NASA uses Supercomputer To Show Spiral Waves of Star Beta Pictoris

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A new NASA supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that...

New Horizons sends Images of Pluto and its Moon Charon

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NASA has released the first color movies from the New Horizons mission that show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet.“It’s...

First Pluto Color Image released by New Horizons

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Pluto has been the last visible yet the largest small planet in the Kulper Belt. For the past century, human race has developed technology that has been exploring the galaxy around the Earth.The...

Pink Dwarf Planet Biden Spotted Beyond Pluto

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A new, “pink”, dwarf planet has been discovered beyond the known edge of the solar system in an area that should be completely empty according to our best theories. The object – provisionally called...