Showing posts with label Pluto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pluto. Show all posts

Friday, February 5, 2010

Photos from NASA

If you're like me, when you think of amazing NASA images, you typically think of stuff like this:

But in reality, I think there's a lot more like this:


What is that? Well, according to NASA those are different faces of Pluto (note: not a planet) as seen through the Hubble telescope. I'm not saying they are lying or anything, but...wow. I can't tell what the heck I'm even looking at. Astronomy is kind of like using a spectrometer, and I'm honestly amazed we're able to understand anything as well as we do.