Thursday, February 18, 2010

Happy birthday Pluto...

discovered 80 years ago on this date. Earlier this month NASA released the most detailed images of the distant and diminutive body ever acquired (click to enlarge).

While it's no longer classified as a planet, it is the largest object in the Kuiper belt. Learn more about Pluto here. And here's a previous related post.

Image credit: Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

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