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Titan in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, as captured by the Cassini probe in 2004. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute…
For 85 years after its discovery, Pluto was little more than a dot in a telescope — until 2015, when a piano-sized NASA spacecraft that had traveled more than three billion miles flew past and revealed a world with a 1,000-kilometer heart-shaped glacier of frozen nitrogen and a surface so young it should not exist.
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Did Pluto’s gravity affect the trajectory of New Horizons when it flew past?
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Hungry white dwarf devours surprisingly icy Pluto-like world
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the white dwarf star WD 1647+375 surrounded by a disk of rocky…