The only reason it was ever downgraded is because we went through a period of adoring celebrity astronomers and letting them get away with extremely stupid decisions.
Boah ey, ich bin vermutlich echt spät dran, aber #Pluto ist eine echt gute Thriller-Geschichte. Gerade erst die erste Episode gesehen, aber jetzt schon Kloß im Hals.
TIL: the massive amount of heat that is generated in earth's core, that moves continents around the surface and creates mountains, volcanoes, and geothermal vents, comes from radioactive decay of heavy elements in earth's core.
And I'm learning a lot more, like Pluto has an atmosphere. And smog.
I know the Fediverse generally skews towards the scientific consensus, but I'm curious with how you feel about the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoting Pluto to dwarf planet status back in 2006?
In case you are wondering what the Arizona legislature is up to in 2024, here is a hard-hitting bill proposed to... (drumroll)...have Pluto designated the official state planet. Yes, seriously!
#PPOD: All members of the Pluto system as taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and shown at 1 km/pixel. Pluto and Charon, technically a binary planetary system, anchor this eclectic group, and the small moons are tantalizingly interesting as well. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Ted Stryk
NASA's #NewHorizons
2015-07-14 at 33958 km
Instrument: MVIC
OPUS ID: Color Composite of
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Learned about #DecRecs yesterday and that sounds like a fun way to talk about stuff I like so I’ll start mine off with my favorite #manga of all time, #Pluto! It’s a really beautiful story that’s less about the murders of the most powerful robots on the planet, and more about the brutality and beauty of emotion and how we navigate it.
#PPOD: Pluto's approximately 50-km wide moon Nix was imaged by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. The red area is likely a region of tholin deposition and/or formation. Tholins are abiotic complex organic solids possibly produced when ultraviolet light from the faraway Sun breaks down molecules of methane that escape Pluto. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/J. Major
#PPOD: In this false-color image of Pluto, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its July 14, 2015 flyby, different colors represent different compositions of surface ices, revealing a surprisingly active body. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute