ASTRONOMY PICTURE

OF THE DAY

TAG NAME

Pluto

DEC 4, 2003

New Horizons at Jupiter

JUL 31, 2005

Solar System Object Larger than Pluto Discovered

AUG 1, 2005

2003 UB313: A Tenth Planet?

NOV 3, 2005

Possible Pluto Moons

DEC 26, 2005

SN 1006: Supernova Remnant in X-Rays

JAN 24, 2006

New Horizons Launches to Pluto

FEB 7, 2006

UB 313: Larger than Pluto

JUN 24, 2006

Nix and Hydra

SEP 3, 2006

Pluto in True Color

JUN 19, 2007

Eris: More Massive than Pluto

JUL 16, 2008

Makemake of the Outer Solar System

SEP 23, 2008

Haumea of the Outer Solar System

MAR 25, 2009

Orcus of the Outer Solar System

JUL 8, 2010

Dim World, Dark Nebula

JUL 22, 2011

Pluto’s P4

JUL 16, 2012

Fifth Moon Discovered Orbiting Pluto

JUL 8, 2013

Pluto’s Newly Discovered Moons Receive Names

MAY 27, 2015

Approaching Pluto

JUN 22, 2015

New Horizons

JUL 9, 2015

5 Million Miles from Pluto

JUL 11, 2015

Geology on Pluto

JUL 12, 2015

New Horizons Launch to Pluto

JUL 13, 2015

Last Look at Pluto’s Charon Side

JUL 14, 2015

New Horizons Passes Pluto and Charon

JUL 15, 2015

Pluto Resolved

JUL 16, 2015

50 Miles on Pluto

JUL 17, 2015

Charon

JUL 18, 2015

Fly Over Pluto

AUG 6, 2015

Stereo Pluto

AUG 31, 2015

Pluto in Enhanced Color

SEP 14, 2015

Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio

SEP 18, 2015

A Plutonian Landscape

SEP 25, 2015

Pluto’s Snakeskin Terrain

OCT 2, 2015

Charon: Moon of Pluto

OCT 6, 2015

Flying Past Pluto

OCT 26, 2015

Charon and the Small Moons of Pluto

NOV 14, 2015

Wright Mons on Pluto

NOV 25, 2015

Unusual Pits Discovered on Pluto

DEC 14, 2015

Pluto: From Mountains to Plains

JAN 15, 2016

Wright Mons in Color

FEB 22, 2016

Flying Over Pluto’s Moon Charon

FEB 27, 2016

Northern Pluto

APR 2, 2016

Pluto’s Bladed Terrain in 3D

JUN 9, 2016

Pluto at Night

JUN 18, 2016

Sputnik Planum vs. Krun Macula

NOV 22, 2016

Pluto’s Sputnik Planum

JUL 31, 2017

Pluto Flyover from New Horizons

AUG 14, 2017

Charon Flyover from New Horizons

OCT 5, 2017

Pluto’s Bladed Terrain

JUL 6, 2018

Charon: Moon of Pluto

JUL 28, 2018

One Night, One Telescope, One Camera

SEP 10, 2019

Pluto in True Color

OCT 20, 2019

Pluto at Night

AUG 1, 2021

Pluto in Enhanced Color

MAR 26, 2022

Pluto at Night

JUN 3, 2023

Charon: Moon of Pluto

AUG 18, 2023

Northern Pluto