the point in the sky opposite the Sun as seen from Earth. That's when it will stand highest in the sky at midnight. This year ...

The Sun is 93 million miles away ... and requires a good telescope to spot. PhotoPhoto of Pluto and its moon Charon, as seen with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. In the same part constellation ...

Pluto is too far away from Earth to be seen with the naked eye. If you stood on Pluto's surface, the Sun would merely appear to be a very bright star. Although previous images showed that ...

But as you can see in the table at the bottom ... Nevertheless, because it orbited the Sun like a planet, it was classified as a planet and named Pluto, after the god of outer darkness in Roman ...

(See what scientists say about Pluto’s status as a planet ... ice giants and causing them to trace errant paths around the sun. Fast-forward to 1930. Late one February afternoon, 24-year ...

To put that into perspective, think about how mind-numbingly far the Sun is from Earth ... high-resolution images from Pluto. How the data delay works New Horizons talks to Earth through a ...