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Celestial objects to scale in size, rotation speed and tilt. 

 Credit @physicsJ

[waybackwanderer]

Color Landform Atlas: Oklahoma Nov 1998 Archived Web Page

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SuperDARN Online Data Resources Jan 1997 Archived Web Page

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Color Landform Atlas: North Dakota Nov 1998 Archived Web Page

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Charon, one of Pluto's moons, in 3D. Credit:NASA,JHUAPL, SwRI, Alex Parker, Daniel Macháček via /r/space https://ift.tt/2MwJuHp

[kuiperkat]

This just in: #MU69 is a half-flat snowman ⛄️ From Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory: ‼️‼️BREAKING‼️‼️ Images from @nasa New Horizons confirm 2014 MU69 is not, as it turns out, quite so round as initially anticipated. These images from NASA New Horizons demonstrate the highly unusual, flatter shape of the Kuiper Belt Object, the the most distant world ever explored. New Horizons scientists confirmed that the two sections (or “lobes”) are not spherical. The larger lobe more closely resembles a giant pancake 🥞 and the smaller lobe, is shaped like a dented walnut.

[dr-afsaeed]

New Horizons First Pictures of Most Distant Object Ever Contacted in Entire Universe

New Horizons First Pictures of Most Distant Object Ever Contacted in Entire Universe

As we stepped into 2019, so as completed a mind blowing new period of space investigation, with NASA affirming a fruitful flyby of the most inaccessible space objects have ever experienced.

As revelers watched firecrackers detonating in the night sky, billions of kilometers past the display, NASA’s New Horizons probe discreetly indented up another stunning first – making its nearest way to deal…

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