Paben

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An amazing achievement getting the probe that far. Now that Pluto looks like a planet (I think it does anyway) I wonder if it will be upgraded again from lump of rock?

JTaylor

Yep, fine achievement!

Funkii Munkii

Mind blowing the fact we can see clear pictures of Pluto

wayne9t9

Disney did it years ago.

Cpt Jack Sparrow

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Trix-wrx

Now that's hilarious

hodgy0_2

Simply breathtaking

A triumph of human endeavour

I was quite sad when it was ignominiously downgraded from a planet

Hopefully, in our lifetime we will find hard evidence of life in the solar system

No craters !!!, it is simply a stunning discovery it means An active planet, potentially a heat source - rock on science!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33543383

dpb

Should join the euro , more credibility than Greece !

bioforger

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What i found most amazing after all that time in space and the speed it was travelling at, that it was only 75s early from its ideal spot to take the photos.

kevo10

If you find space and the sheer expanse of it , mindboggling, google largest star in the known universe. Absolutely amazing. Made me feel so small and insignificant

Maz

iTrader: (34)

VY Canoris Majoris. Red hyper giant which would take 1100 years to circumnavigate in a plane flying hundreds of miles an hour! Imagine the energy content within?!

neil-h

You really are a uniquely troubled individual.

Back on topic, this made me chuckle.

JTaylor

jonc

This site is pretty awesome to give you an idea of the scale of the universe: http://htwins.net/scale2/

Not to take away the achievement of New Horizons and the people behind it, but I feel the greatest achievement was from the two Voyager probes that beamed back fantastic images of outer gas giants in our solar system. They were launched nearly 40 years ago and when you think what technology they had available to them back then, it is nothing short of a miracle that they are still working and sending information back. They're both about 19,000,000,000km away travelling at around 60,000kph, give or take a few million kilometers and a few thousand kph between them. Voyager 1 has broken through the heliosphere and continuing it's deep interstellar space travel and is so far away that despite transmissions travelling at the speed of light, it still takes 14 hours to send data to and from Voyager 1. Voyager 2 is about to break the heliosphere and continue its journey on a slightly different course. Their plutonium power packs will apparently keep them going for another decade!!

kevo10

Im more than middle age now, and, sad as it seems, one of my regrets is , that i wont be around when interstellar travel is the norm. The wonders of our solar system are , i imagine, nothing compared to what awaits us. Maybe not for the good either. I dont believe, for one minute, that were alone

dpb

**** that , this probes taken since middle of Tb liars reign , to find just about nothing

You do have to be joking

kevo10

Not in the least . Its only a matter of time. As is often said by the scientific community, we would have to be very conceited and arrogant to think we are alone.

Maz

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JTaylor

Phenomenal!

Maz

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Mind boggling. Albeit the statement at the end was technically incorrect. We are at the centre of the universe as the Big Bang occurred every that we now know as the universe simultaneously.