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Why Pluto is still fascinating even though it's not a planet
Pluto receives enough sunlight to be about as bright as midday on Earth during specific times, despite being a dwarf planet 7 ...
Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...
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Is a Sun a Star or a Planet? How We Know — and What Could Change
Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...
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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later
"Pluto was found really close to where Lowell thought a planet should be, but it's also a great example of serendipity in science," Schindler said. "When Lowell was doing his work, there was an ...
The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...
Arizona has declared Pluto its “official state planet” — despite it being relegated to “dwarf planet” status nearly two decades ago. Gov. Katie Hobbs signed legislation on Friday and afterward dodged ...
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On January 17, 2006 the New Horizons mission will launch for Pluto, the last unexplored planet of the solar system — or is it? Some scientists now claim that Pluto does not deserve its planetary ...
The planet Neptune wobbled in its orbit around the Sun. That could only mean one thing, astronomers said: There was a ninth planet out there, somewhere, lurking in the fringes of the solar system.
Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't mean it's a joke of a world this April Fools' Day and the folks behind Pluto TV want to make that clear. On April 1, ...
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