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So, here’s the last, clearest image of Pluto taken by space probe New Horizons before today’s flyby.
She’s pink. With a giant heart.
I’m not sure why this gets to me, but it does. At the edge of the Solar System, which I’d always known as being awfully dark and awfully cold, is this massive celestial emblem of Love orbiting her inner neighbours, which we never recognised because we’d never seen it.
I know I’m seeing what I want to see (like the Martian “face”), and the giant icy heart may be a dynamic formation and change eventually (like Jupiter’s Red Spot and Neptune’s blue one).
But it’s things like this, seeing the unexpected in the most unlikely place, and a surpassingly positive thing, that makes me feel sometimes that we’re all going to be all right after all.
(Image by NASA and the universe. Public domain!)
She’s pink. With a giant heart.
I’m not sure why this gets to me, but it does. At the edge of the Solar System, which I’d always known as being awfully dark and awfully cold, is this massive celestial emblem of Love orbiting her inner neighbours, which we never recognised because we’d never seen it.
I know I’m seeing what I want to see (like the Martian “face”), and the giant icy heart may be a dynamic formation and change eventually (like Jupiter’s Red Spot and Neptune’s blue one).
But it’s things like this, seeing the unexpected in the most unlikely place, and a surpassingly positive thing, that makes me feel sometimes that we’re all going to be all right after all.
(Image by NASA and the universe. Public domain!)
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Heh, I hope they don't take it down. I considered just making this post a journal, but really wanted a picture to go with it!
Pluto was always a planet to me. Now they're calling her the confirmed sovereign of the Kuiper belt, being the largest and closest object there, so she seems to be straddling the line between the planetary Solar System and the space directly beyond.
A bit like the deity Pluto, actually.
Pluto was always a planet to me. Now they're calling her the confirmed sovereign of the Kuiper belt, being the largest and closest object there, so she seems to be straddling the line between the planetary Solar System and the space directly beyond.
A bit like the deity Pluto, actually.
O.o It was named after the Roman God Pluto. But the classification of what is a planet is still so vauge that they rather leave it as is than have to define properly. Clearing one's orbit was the third Classification that Pluto failed. Yet if that were true, what influences Pluto? Nothing. It has been orbiting around Sol for quite some time and never did it crash suddenly or get sucked in as anothers moon just how much "space" does one need to "Clear ones orbit"? This never been defined. I find it sorta stupid if you ask me.
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