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Today, at 7:49am, the NASA spacecraft New Horizons flew past Pluto, a mere 7,000 miles from its surface. It sent back this image:
Not only is this the closest any spacecraft has been to Pluto, it's only 85 years after Pluto was even discovered. New Horizons was launched in 2006 (photo below) and is just now getting to its target. Crazy. Later tonight, it should "phone home" and tell if it survived the flyby and send more pictures of the not-a-planet and its moons, which you can find on NASA's Facebook, Twitter, and official mission pages. Huge congratulations to the NASA scientists who started planning this mission fifteen years ago.
Here's the launch photo:
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