Topic: Astronomy

Pluto

Pluto
This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the dwarf planet Pluto.The image shows an icy, mottled, dark molasses-colored world undergoing seasonal surface color and brightness changes. (AP Photo/NASA) Copyright 2010  AP News
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Hubble sees Pluto changing color, ice sheet cover

Pluto sees red: Hubble photos show more of an orange tinge on dwarf planet; ice sheets shiftSpurned Pluto is changing its looks, donning more rouge in its complexion and altering its iceball surface here and there. Color astronomers surprised. Newly released Hubble Space Telescope photos show the distant one-time planet ...
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Pluto turning brighter and redder, pictures show

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pluto is turning brighter and redder as its 248-year-long rotation around the sun changes its seasons, NASA reported on Thursday. The U.S. space agency released new images taken by the orbiting Hubble space telescope that show Pluto's northern hemisphere growing brighter and the entire planet looking ...
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Space rock worth thousands stirs ownership debate

An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute over who its rightful owner should be. The tennis ball-sized meteorite plummeted through the roof of a Virginia medical office just after dusk on Jan. 18, the same time as people reported seeing a fireball in the sky ...
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