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Pluto Through TimeOur solar system's icy sentinel finally came into focus this week thanks to NASA's New Horizons. The spacecraft came within 8,000 miles of Pluto on July 14, and the dwarf planet went from blurry blob to stunning snapshot.
Photographs by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory; Alan Stern (Southwest Research Institute), Marc Buie (Lowell Observatory), NASA and ESA; Dr. R. Albrecht, ESA/ESO Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, NASA; NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute); NASA, ESA, and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute); NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Week's Best Space Pictures: Pluto In Focus, Black Hole Jets

Witness the results of 9.5 years of waiting—and what happens when a black hole throws a tantrum.

ByJane J. Lee
Photo gallery byEmily Jan
Published July 17, 2015

Feed your need for heavenly views of the universe with our pick of the most awe-inspiring space pictures. This week, nearly a decade of patience pays off, Saturn's moon Titan shows its true size, and Jupiter gets a twin.

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