[headdie]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100204/tsc-blushing-pluto-dwarf-planet-takes-on-e123fef.html

[The E]

Is that the revenge of Pluto?

[Nuclear1]

PLUTO SMASH!

[watsisname]

I love how Uranus is all crosseyed and lopsided in that pic.

[Mongoose]

The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment.

[headdie]

The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment.

I think the article mentions that Hubble has recently finished its  final upgrade so probably as a result of that

[Mongoose]

No, these pictures are apparently from back in 2002 or so and have had a few years of image-enhancement algorithms applied to them.  The new hardware might provide slightly-better data, but there's only so much that Hubble can see of such a small object located so far away.

[The E]

'You mean, an object that is so near

[Mongoose]

Depends what you're relating to what.

[DeepSpace9er]

The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment.

We need FTL or other uber fast technology.. yesterday! 2015 is too long to wait.