NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...
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NASA chief Isaacman backs Pluto’s return as planet, reigniting decades-old classification debate
Back in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) shocked the world by denying Pluto its planetary status.
It’s been 18 years since Pluto’s celestial status was called into question—yet the matter seems far from settled. We asked experts from both sides to make their case. This 2015 NASA image of Pluto ...
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NASA chief reignites Pluto planet status debate
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has publicly called for reconsidering Pluto’s classification, nearly two decades after the International Astronomical Union (IAU) designated it a dwarf planet. His ...
This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...
Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists —... Pluto isn’t a planet — but it gives us clues for how the ...
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