7 Things We've Learnt About Pluto Since New Horizons
Remember the Pluto flyby? That was just the beginning.
Remember back in 2015 when everybody suddenly went a bit bonkers for Pluto? Well, that was only the beginning of the story and, although the hype has somewhat settled down, the New Horizons probe continues to beam the latest news from deep space back to those boffins at NASA. As the rest of the world fell in love with the shining heart of Pluto, and shared pictures of the distant dwarf planet on social media, scientists were impatiently waiting for the detailed reams of data that would pour back to Earth over the coming months, just waiting to be interpreted. From this, we've managed to piece together an incredibly detailed picture of an object that is over 4.6 billion miles away, and it has become apparent that Pluto is much more surprising and complex than anybody had previously thought.