Is it possible to view Pluto from a backyard telescope? Ethan Spyker Wadsworth, Ohio If I'm being honest, Pluto is difficult for an amateur astronomer to see. A standard 8-inch telescope just won ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...

according to Sky and Telescope, in order to see Pluto. Even at its brightest, Pluto is not visible to the naked eye and is about 27 million times fainter than Venus. This also means that you'll ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto, it does celebrate the joy of observing planets. Viewers who watch the show may wonder what happened to Pluto in 2006 and whether any of ...

The best Hubble Telescope images were only 150 pixels ... Click on the hand to see why Pluto and its moon have shaken things up. New Horizons' biggest surprise was that Pluto shows signs of ...

Even the best telescopes of the day couldn’t resolve ... and scientists would not be shocked to see plumes erupting from Pluto, as on Neptune’s largest moon, Triton. Hovering overhead is ...

Four planets will be in the parade in January, while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.

A six-planet alignment or parade will form an arc in the early night sky, peaking in it's visibility Jan. 17-18. We let you ...

Little Pluto is so small and remote it was not ... are other galaxies out there—stretching as far as our great telescopes can see. Billions of other islands of stars are scattered through ...

When Clyde Tombaugh built his first telescope at the age of 20 ... lead to the discovery of the first known dwarf planet, Pluto. Let's take a look at the life of this amazing person.

These bodies separated relatively quickly but remained orbitally linked to create the Pluto/Charon system we see today. This "kiss and capture" process represents a new theory of moon capture and ...