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    Pluto

    Image of Pluto taken by New Horizons
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    Radio Astronomy Podcast Pluto at 90: how Clyde Tombaugh discovered a new world

    Once the 9th planet in the Solar System, Pluto is now classified as a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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    Why Pluto is no longer a planet: the rise and fall of a Kuiper Belt Object

    Clyde Tombaugh pictured at a Zeiss Blink Comparator, a machine used in the discovery of Pluto. Credit: Lowell Observatory Archives
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    Astronomers you should know Clyde Tombaugh

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    Image of Pluto taken by New Horizons
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    What’s warming Pluto’s icy heart?

    Remote observations have suggested that Ultima Thule has a lumpy shape, or could even be two bodies in orbit around each other. Image Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Steve Gribben
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    Interview: Ramy El-Maarry, New Horizons scientist

    An artist's illustration of New Horizons at Pluto. Credit: Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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    What did New Horizons discover at Pluto?

    The diversity of Pluto’s surface is visible in this shot, showing the various surfaces and landforms on the dwarf planet. This 350km wide image shows cratered terrain, mountains and a field of dark ridges that look like dunes.
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    New Horizons reveals latest Pluto images

    Astronomer James Christy pictured with the photographic plate on which he and Robert Harrington discovered Pluto’s largest moon Charon, in 1978. Credit: U.S. Naval Observatory
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    How Pluto’s moon Charon was discovered

    Voyager 2's view of Triton. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
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    The Story of the Solar System: Geysers on Triton

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    Dune-like features can be seen in Sputnik Planitia, which scientists believe were caused by thermal winds transporting grains of methane ice. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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    Ice dunes discovered on Pluto

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    New Horizons: ice volcanoes and spinning moons

    An image of Pluto captured in high-resolution by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on 14 July 2015. The spacecraft studied the dwarf planet before beginning its journey towards MU69. Credit: NASA/JHUAP/SwRI
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    New Horizons phones home

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    Pluto’s icy mountains revealed

    New Horizons images of Pluto's largest moon, taken on 11 July 2015, reveal chasms, craters and a dark polar region.
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    New Horizons reveals Charon’s surface features

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    Cheltenham Science Festival: The Kuiper Belt

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