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New Horizons near Pluto
Brian May: Queen guitarist and astrophysicist
View Jupiter's images captured from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard the New Horizons spacecraft
Pluto Arrokoth New Horizons liftoff Pluto
How do features on Pluto and its moons get their names?
Why isn't Pluto a planet?
Io's Tvashtar volcano
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Brian May: Queen guitarist and astrophysicist
Many consider Brian May to be the greatest guitarist of all time. He's also an astrophysicist.
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View Jupiter's images captured from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard the New Horizons spacecraft
View of Jupiter created from images taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager...
Video: NASA/JHUAPL/SRI
How do features on Pluto and its moons get their names?
Learn how physical features on Pluto, Charon, and nearby moons are named according...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Why isn't Pluto a planet?
Being a dwarf planet isn't really a downgrade.
Video: Encyclopedia Britannica INC.

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New Horizons near Pluto
Artist's rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its three...
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Pluto
Pluto as observed by the New Horizons spacecraft, July 13, 2015.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Arrokoth
Composite image of the primordial contact binary Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 (now...
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko
New Horizons liftoff
Liftoff of the New Horizons spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral...
NASA/KSC
Pluto
Pluto as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft, July 14, 2015.
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Io's Tvashtar volcano
A giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano, photographed by the New Horizons Long-Range...
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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