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The Search for Pluto Turns 100 in Spectacular Fashion

Three billion miles away, a NASA probe comes within a stone's throw of the solar system's only former planet

Here's What Pluto Looks Like From About 7,750 Miles Away

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A NASA mission called New Horizons soared past Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, at 7:49 A.M. Eastern time. The basic facts need no embellishment: