It is no longer a planet but not forgotten, the colors of Pluto, captured by NASA almost 10 years ago, continue to dazzle among the collection of celestial objects of colors only seen in the solar system.
Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been known as the ninth planet in the Solar System, far beyond Neptune, the last of the gas giants.
This changed in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union stated that Orbe Faraway was a dwarf planet due to its location, known as the Trans-Neptunian region, according to NASA. In this region, the objects of the space could cross any orbit of the dwarf planet and of Pluto.
Pluto also sits in a larger field of objects that surround the solar system called Kuiper Belt. Other dwarf planets in the region have been discovered during the years since reclassification NASA.
That same year, NASA launched his New horizons Space ship to study the outer edge of the solar system, particularly Kuiper belt. On July 14, 2015, New Horizons made a Flyby Pluto and its moons, giving scientists back to Earth their first first plan, detailed from the old planet.
The images showed the healing and mountainous surface of a planet known as half the width of the United States and smaller than the Moon on Earth, NASA declared. Among its traits was a massive and heart -shaped crater that NASA Informally called Tombaugh Regio, or region of Tombaugh, he called the name of the man who discovered Pluto, Clyde Tombough.