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Pluto - Back From the Dead

Pluto – Back From the Dead

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Pluto – Back From the Dead: The incredible story of how Pluto has been propelled from an unremarkable ball of ice on the edge of the solar system to a world of unimaginable complexity – where some form of alien life might exist.     Featuring first-hand accounts of the incredible discoveries made by New Horizons from many of the scientists involved in the mission.   Pluto – Back From the Dead   Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is an icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was the […]

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The Planets episode 5 - Into the Darkness

The Planets episode 5 – Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds

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The Planets episode 5: in the final episode, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home. These worlds remain shadowy for a simple reason. Beyond Saturn we have only ever visited the most distant planets once.     Uranus – barely visible to the naked eye – was once thought to be the furthest planet from the Sun. But with the telescope and some careful viewing we discovered it had a companion: Neptune. Thanks to a rare alignment of the planets in 1976, Voyager 2 was sent

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