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Pluto, with its heart-shaped glacier, as captured by the New Horizons spacecraft Pluto, with its heart-shaped glacier, as captured by the New Horizons spacecraftJPL/NASA Editor at Large Pluto will ...
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Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1930 and was considered our ninth planet until 2006. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...
Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...