NASA has released a new photo of Pluto from the New Horizons mission.
If you click on this link you get a larger photo and by clicking on different sections of that photo you get a close up and the greatest detail yet seen.
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/defa...enhanced_release.png
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that is really cool, thanks El Loro 
It's all strawberries and cream, innit!
you knew somebody had to do it
Amazing isn't it 
NASA has released a new photo of Pluto from the New Horizons mission.
If you click on this link you get a larger photo and by clicking on different sections of that photo you get a close up and the greatest detail yet seen.
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/defa...enhanced_release.png
Although I have seen it before it's still a great picture.
Fantastic!
Is there any reason why planets are seemingly a perfect circular shape?
Is there any reason why planets are seemingly a perfect circular shape?
Yes....hope that helps! 
NASA has released a new photo of Pluto from the New Horizons mission.
If you click on this link you get a larger photo and by clicking on different sections of that photo you get a close up and the greatest detail yet seen.
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/defa...enhanced_release.png
Although I have seen it before it's still a great picture.
EC, if you click on the link you will get a considerably better picture than is possible to show on the forum and it's only been released by NASA in the last day or so. It's 16 times the size of the picture shown here. As the picture is 70mb in size it will take time on slower connections.
Is there any reason why planets are seemingly a perfect circular shape?
All of the planets are round because of gravity. When our Solar System was forming, gravity gathered billions of pieces of gas and dust into clumps which grew larger and larger to become the planets. The force of the collision of these pieces caused the newly forming planets to become hot and molten. The force of gravity, pulled this molten material inwards towards the planet's center into the shape of a sphere. Later, when the planets cooled, they stayed spherical. Planets are not perfectly spherical because they also spin. The spinning force acts against gravity and causes many planets to bulge out more around their equators.
NASA has released a new photo of Pluto from the New Horizons mission.
If you click on this link you get a larger photo and by clicking on different sections of that photo you get a close up and the greatest detail yet seen.
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/defa...enhanced_release.png
Although I have seen it before it's still a great picture.
EC, if you click on the link you will get a considerably better picture than is possible to show on the forum and it's only been released by NASA in the last day or so. It's 16 times the size of the picture shown here. As the picture is 70mb in size it will take time on slower connections.
I keep an eye out for Nasa photographs as I read they were releasing pictures. Yesterday I was looking at a photograph which was focused on a part of Earth and they had caught an airliner, the article bemoaned the fact they were not using the new Canon 50MP sensor.
I also do regular Google searches for astronomical pictures, but rarely post any. My astronomical photos tend to be from Earth looking up at the stars.
I will be grabbing the picture so that I can adjust it for my mobile phone wallpaper.
El, click on the link you posted. It seems to have disappeared.
I got a nice error page though.
Just downloaded the picture. Would love to get that printed out as a poster.
Been downloading a couple of others, the views of Earth look like someone's paintings.
Is there any reason why planets are seemingly a perfect circular shape?
Yes....hope that helps!
Is there any reason why planets are seemingly a perfect circular shape?
All of the planets are round because of gravity. When our Solar System was forming, gravity gathered billions of pieces of gas and dust into clumps which grew larger and larger to become the planets. The force of the collision of these pieces caused the newly forming planets to become hot and molten. The force of gravity, pulled this molten material inwards towards the planet's center into the shape of a sphere. Later, when the planets cooled, they stayed spherical. Planets are not perfectly spherical because they also spin. The spinning force acts against gravity and causes many planets to bulge out more around their equators.
Wha ???
Can the Death Star be considered a planet or is it a satellite?
I thought it was a ship!
Is there any reason why planets are seemingly a perfect circular shape?
All of the planets are round because of gravity. When our Solar System was forming, gravity gathered billions of pieces of gas and dust into clumps which grew larger and larger to become the planets. The force of the collision of these pieces caused the newly forming planets to become hot and molten. The force of gravity, pulled this molten material inwards towards the planet's center into the shape of a sphere. Later, when the planets cooled, they stayed spherical. Planets are not perfectly spherical because they also spin. The spinning force acts against gravity and causes many planets to bulge out more around their equators.
Wha ???
Gravity and centripital forces!
Is there any reason why planets are seemingly a perfect circular shape?
All of the planets are round because of gravity. When our Solar System was forming, gravity gathered billions of pieces of gas and dust into clumps which grew larger and larger to become the planets. The force of the collision of these pieces caused the newly forming planets to become hot and molten. The force of gravity, pulled this molten material inwards towards the planet's center into the shape of a sphere. Later, when the planets cooled, they stayed spherical. Planets are not perfectly spherical because they also spin. The spinning force acts against gravity and causes many planets to bulge out more around their equators.
Wha ???
Gravity and centripital forces!
Don't you bloody swear at me !!!!
*storms off - EC style*
I thought it was a ship!
I see no ships, only...
Sorry to lower the tone but when I saw the photo the first thing I thought was that it bore a striking resemblance to the ball-shaped thing that floated around in our old lavatory cistern
Thanks El Loro 
