PLUTO!

I've always been fascinated with Astronomy, and the latest NASA mission New Horizons has just completed a flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto, so I feel the need to share some of that awesomeness.

This is how clearly we used to be able to see Pluto:

It's out there somewhere...

Once the Hubble Space Telescope came online, we were able to get a closer look:

not so hot.

The latest photo comes from the New Horizons probe, taken just a few days ago and beamed back to Earth:


just... wow.

From a favorite webcomic of mine, XKCD:

And since this is a card blog, how about showing my only Pluto card:

Part of the "One Little Corner" subset, Pluto's card seems to be using the Hubble image as its inspiration.

Science is awesome!