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[@d4rk0v3]

Point of contention. The sun would not just look like a bright star in the sky from Pluto. It would be too bright to observe directly. It would be painful to look at. It would be SO much brighter than you'd think. Someone with sharp eyes would even be able to resolve the sun as a very tiny disk if their visor had a filter (it would) to block out the intense glare (obviously hypothetical since a person standing on Pluto ... one can dream?). In fact, the sun would outshine most of the stars in the sky during the day, especially during perihelion.

[@d4rk0v3]

@@australien6611 Did you even check yourself before commenting? I'd do that, because you'd see I am correct.

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Lol master work scam

[@australien6611]

​@@d4rk0v3 i did but you clearly didn't because you are wrong

[@chaosopher23]

Let me add an observation that can be a discovery itself. Where Pluto lives is a region of space that is heavily populated by lots of rocks of various sizes. They will hit each other, and Pluto is a gravitational giant among them. Therefore, I would expect Pluto's surface to be covered in craters, but it is not. Instead, Pluto's surface is very native, with few impact craters. Pluto is highly volcanic. We need an orbiter with a better radio transmitter.

[@richardbrekke3289]

It's a dwarf planet, so I figure the heat is just from the forges.

[@AnfaalTheGulBoy]

Not where I expected to see a fire comment like this

[@Jive33]

Love this comment

[@jamaalgamble3441]

Lol

[@ALittleToTheLeft42]

That was awesome

[@disgustof-riley8338]

LMAOO

[@Dakiraun]

I never fail to be blown away by the images of Pluto. Born in the mid 70s and taking an interest in astronomy even as a kid, I remember the reveals of the planets as the Voyager probes went by, but I also remember being a bit sad that they were not on a path to see Pluto. It was so far out there that I thought it'd be something we'd never see, or at least, not in my lifetime. I'm glad they did New Horizons, and I'm even more happy that Pluto ended up being a big bag of surprises in terms of its complexity, because I hope that encourages more similar missions to other outer dwarf planets.

[@rolandthethompsongunner64]

Pluto deserves a permanent orbiting probe. Imagine how it must transform during it’s 248 year orbit around the sun !

[@Dakiraun]

@@rolandthethompsongunner64 Oh yeah, would probably be completely different every orbit. Would sure be tricky though - probe would have to be fast to get out there in a reasonable amount of time, but then has to have enough fuel to decelerate and enter orbit, then be nuclear powered to last since solar's a non-option out that far.

[@ODUBlue]

Ceres getting investigated just before was the perfect appetizer course. Those two missions were fascinating for me.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

I hope this encourages scientists to backdoor Pluto into being a planet again! Chief among Mini Planets, or some such description.

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

@@carlcushmanhybels8159 Dwarf planets are essentially planets that lack the necessary mass to gravitationally attract objects in their orbit around the sun.

[@Rebar77_real]

Amazing imagery from so far away. Don't miss Pluto finishing its first orbit since discovery on March 23, 2178.

[@floatthecreek]

I can hardly wait. I'll only be 218 years old.

[@1234j]

I've set the alarm. Let's hope my phone battery lasts that long.

[@guillermobarrio55]

Details will follow! 🤣

[@1234j]

How do I subscribe for a reminder, so my descendants can put it in their diary equivalents, please??

[@Mangaka-ml6xo]

@@1234j Get the date tattooed on your children and grand-children, it will be hard to forget that way!

[@bazpearce9993]

I love that Pluto can grow an atmosphere when it's nearest the Sun that freezes back onto the surface nearer apogee. Almost gives it a feel of a comet. It even leaves a tail behind no doubt due to the Solar wind.

[@manofcultura]

To be fair all planets have a “tail”. I think Venus is the one that loses the most material of all the non-giant planets.

[@bazpearce9993]

@@manofcultura But that's not being fair is it? Pointing out a single shared attribute. Another cometary attribute is it's inclination to the ecliptic of 17 degrees. I would class that as deliberately bending over backwards to keep Pluto in th e planet club.

[@manofcultura]

@@bazpearce9993 well I don’t care about Pluto lol. I’m not one of those. However; I do class Pluto as a planet or at least planetoid. I would rather be geophysically consistent than astronomically consistent. Astronomers are as arbitrary as ornithologists. A planet in my mind is anything rounded by gravity and consists of anything heavier than helium. Simple and exquisite description. It’s orbit, inclination, co-orbiting bodies, moons and the rest do not matter. In fact I consider Pluto Charon a dual planet system like earth-moon.

[@pride2184]

​@@bazpearce9993 pluto is a planet. Comets are way smaller. Like only two even come close to pluto and they are half its size if that. Planets are round. They have enough mass to be shaped by its own gravity. That should be enough to keep pluto as a Planet. But they deliberately made rules to knock pluto from being a Planet which is just scientifically dishonesty we all fell for.

[@bazpearce9993]

​ @Pride Stop being such a crybaby. I never even said it wasn't a planet and you're both on me like snowflakes. I stated it has some traits in common with comets. The Minor planet distinction is to simplify things, which is what science is supposed to do. How many planets do you want? 8 or 8 freaking thousand?

[@karenkingrey6142]

Pluto has always been such a point of fascination for me. I’m not sure why, but I love any new info that comes out. Thanks so much for this and your other videos about it.

[@australien6611]

😎

[@albatross1688]

Perhaps because it's in the far edge of our solar system and is the furthest celestial body we have learned about in school? One does not need to have a reason to wish to understand that which exists on the edge of our imagination.

[@nebahatkarsloglu8144]

I also love this far away tiny planet and it's still 9th planet in my heart .. And there are two more planet are waiting to be discoverd in future insha Allah (if The God will) ..

[@nebahatkarsloglu8144]

I seek refuge with God from expelled devil The Glorious Qur'an Chapter 12 Joseph 4. When Joseph said to his father, “O my father, I saw eleven planets, and the sun, and the moon; I saw them bowing down to me.” 5. He (Jacop) said, “O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers, lest they plot and scheme against you. Satan is man's sworn enemy. 6. And thus your Lord will choose you, and will teach you the interpretation of events, and will complete His blessing upon you and upon the family of Jacob, as He has completed it before upon your forefathers Abraham and Isaac. Your Lord is Knowing and Wise. 7. In Joseph and his brothers are lessons for the seekers.

[@australien6611]

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[@jkdbuck7670]

What they found on and around Pluto is some of the most fascinating stuff I've seen in my lifetime.

[@HoopTY303]

Absolutely agree.

[@mistermysteryman107]

You folks are easily impressed.

[@mxb2432]

​@PAUL MH Definition of a planet : ✔️1- It must orbit a star (in our cosmic neighborhood, the Sun). ✔️2- It must be big enough to have enough gravity to force it into a spherical shape. ❌3- It must be big enough that its gravity cleared away any other objects of a similar size near its orbit around the Sun. Or we would have to change the definition 🫤

[@ogedeh]

What did they find

[@jamesstead2256]

@@mistermysteryman107 if you seen mine you would be impressed 🤣

[@eroraf8637]

Pluto-posting will never get old. I’ll probably be looking back at July 2015 (and the following few years of data and reactions) as an old man and still be impressed.

[@kevinb9830]

It's actually quite refreshing to have an actual human narrator and relevant pictures.

[@kayzeaza]

I remember learning about New Horizons in middle school. It had only really just been launched then, maybe about two or three years after. Learning it was gonna take so long to get there had me bugging hahah. But then I completely forgot about it until it arrived. It’s cool to finally know what Pluto actually looks like

[@jus10lewissr]

I remember getting to see our first real images of Pluto for the first time some years back and never in a million years would I have ever expected it to be so spectacular. You just sort of expect some dull, icy, featureless rock and that couldn't be any further from the truth; Pluto is absolutely breathtaking.

[@Quickened1]

I would have never seen these images and data without this video! Thanks Alex...

[@xyz7572]

I love that when he talks about the mysteries of Tombaugh Regio (the white heart), there’s a hidden subtitle that he doesn’t say out loud: _”After all, every heart has its secrets”_

[@xpndblhero5170]

Walking through those dunes is probably almost physically impossible because it's most likely like walking through Styrofoam beads over 6 feet deep.... I can't imagine how weird it would be but it would also be really cool.

[@alessandrovilla6759]

Well, walking would certainly be very different than how we do on Earth. Perhaps you have seen movies of astronauts on Moon, how they carefully control energy by making little jumps. With a Moon gravity only 1/6 of Earth's, any normal step would propel a man enough to fly (uncontrollably) for many meters. Pluto's surface gravity is only about 1/16 of Earth's, so it requires 1/16 of the energy to make a similar jump or step. Flexing a toe would be more than enough. Your comparison with Styrofoam is indeed pertinent. The human body (mostly composed by water) has a density higher than tiny particles of water ice on the Pluto dunes. I'd expect the effect to be like traversing very soft snow (6 feet or more deep...). Hope to live enough to see how (if ever) a surface exploration of Pluto will be conceived, it is certainly an interesting challenge.

[@xpndblhero5170]

@@alessandrovilla6759 - Agreed, that would be an epic vacation destination.... Go there and jump 50ft in the air then land on a pile of super lightweight snow for fun, then you can go "Mountain Climbing" which would consist of jumping to the top then jumping from peak to peak. 😂

[@brown3394]

That would be an awesome service to offer someday - instead of those creepy machines - when we get really old and terminal, we can go on one way trips to do that, with a group of fellow ancients at the end of their days.

[@msytdc1577]

​​@@alessandrovilla6759 except for the fact that the moon suits the Apollo astronauts were wearing while on the moon doubled their weight, so combined they weighed 1/3rd as much as they would on Earth, about 60lbs. No one is launching themselves uncontrollably by jumping with those kinds of numbers.

[@marhawkman303]

@@msytdc1577 als the hopping was simply the most efficient way to move, they could walk if they wanted to.

[@xyz7572]

I remember when the first pictures of Pluto came in, with its iconic white heart shape. The entire world was in awe.

[@futotesan]

Those compiled images from 2:52 to 3:00...just breathtaking. So much to be said...how far we have come...

[@ian_b]

New Horizons has been my Space Age highlight. I was born in 66 and since I was a child I'd always wanted to see the surface of Pluto pretty much more than anything else. And boy, were we not disappointed. We're just so lucky the mission was approved before Mike Brown took a wrecking ball to the definition of a planet.

[@TheGeffry]

Does it really matter that much what the definition is? Pluto is Pluto. If you want to call an apple an orange, then do it, but it will still be an apple. The important thing is that we look up :)

[@overcomingobstaclescreates1695]

Same! I was born in the early 80s, so I was fortunate enough to have books with pictures of the gas giants from the Voyager missions. But Pluto was always my favorite and I never imagined that in my lifetime we would get to study it up close!. When I was young, I once asked someone why it was that Hubble could take a detailed picture of a galaxy thousands of light-years away, but we couldn't get a decent picture of Pluto. (Don't worry, I received a lesson in optics and lighting). I will never forget the moment when we all saw Pluto *as it is* for the first time. 🤩😍🥰 Now I dream that one day in the future, humans will be able to explore Pluto in person.

[@tosspot1305]

I think he means that the mission wouldn't have been approved so we would have never got to see it's beauty

[@ian_b]

@@tosspot1305 Yes, that's what I meant.

[@TheGeffry]

@@ian_b I get that, but Ceres is also a dwarf planet and there was Dawn... I'm just saying, I don't really think that the planet status had much to do with the approval, after all, asteroids and comets also get dedicated missions. But then again, what do I know? As stated before, we can call ourselves lucky to be able to see these worlds.

[@stevenweller1673]

Pluto love. It's a feeling like no other for no other place is exotic in such a strange and wondrous way. As a kid in the early seventies I'd think of Pluto in the abstract, wondering what a cold dark planet could be like. Now we know and it's like a frozen flower opening before our eyes. Subsurface oceans, slowly flowing nitrogen plains, cryo volcanoes and lovely lovely landscapes...and someday the wind blowing furiously as the ground evaporates and the atmosphere thickens... Golly it's good! S.W.

[@weeooh1]

Very informative thank you. And special thanks for not resorting to click-bait titles like some of the other YT channels have been doing lately.

[@libanomar013]

Absolutely mind-blowing

[@Taikamuna]

It's mind blowing that the sun only looks like a bright star

[@adambattersby8934]

The Sun IS a bright star.

[@rais1953]

A very bright star. From the BBC: The average distance of Pluto from the Sun is about 39 times that of the Earth’s. So, on average, the Sun on Pluto looks about 1,520 times fainter than it does on Earth. But this isn’t particularly faint. The full Moon is on average about 400,000 times fainter than the Sun. So, doing the maths, this means the Sun seen from Pluto is about 264 times brighter than the full Moon. This is about the amount of light you’d see on Earth when the Sun is around four degrees below the horizon, during ‘civil twilight’, which is more than enough to read by. Even on Pluto, looking directly at the Sun would probably be painful.

[@emmmpeee8655]

Always such wonderful narration.

[@ABCKorpi]

I really hope for a Kuiperbelt object orbiter mission in the future. Seeing what a simple flyby did to our understanding of Pluto, I cannot imagine what we'd learn about it with a proper orbiter or even a lander probe.

[@nathanhough8156]

It would probably take decades to get there Saddly

[@hanspecans]

The sad part is this will most likely not happen in our lifetimes.

[@davidfiler7439]

Mildly interesting factoid - if you landed on one of the Kuiper Belt rocks, stepped outside your ship, you would not see another rock anywhere because they average 100,000 miles distance between them. Also, both Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft passed through the asteroid belt.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

This is a wonderful and fascinating era for us non-astronomers who are informed about the numerous discoveries in our galaxy and beyond.

[@frankreynolds445]

I was 47 when the New Horizon was on its way to Pluto. I always wondered what it looked liked since I was a kid. In 2015 I finally got to see what it looked like. It was beyond my expectations.

[@southron_d1349]

It seems the tidal forces between Pluto and Charon are enough to keep things warmer than had Pluto just its four small moons.

[@hiddentruth1982]

the thing I like about this channel is that there isn't any interjection. It's the simple facts and current theories based on the facts. No aliens did it talk like the "history " channel does.

[@ivx8345]

Astrum you are the best! I was always interested in space but you make it so much more appealing with your videos. Let's hope you inspire more people to look up instead of putting energy in petty differences and petty earth circumstances.

[@dsmccolgan]

💚💚 yes to that!

[@g4_61]

Super excited for another Pluto episode! Keep up the great work.

[@dianep1385]

Alex,your presentations are wonderful! Thank you 😊

[@aarondavis8943]

Flame and shadow! But more shadow in this case. Surely there's a black hole out there we can name _Morgoth?_ Seems appropriate as he's trapped in the Void. Yes, I'm a nerd.

[@jeffstackhouse1392]

Your voice sounds almost identical to Sebastian Vettel, even down to small inflections in your voice. It’s quite maddening to try to convince myself that Seb isn’t doing voiceover work for the channel. Of course I know that it could not be true. The joy in your voice does very clearly come through. Well done sir

[@vaughnmojado8637]

Thank you for sharing this. I’m fascinated by deep space and will never learn enough in my lifetime.

[@zingodoom]

2:10 - bit of a mistake here. Nix and Hydra were discovered together in 2005 (the initials N and H being tribute to New Horizons itself). Kerberos and Styx were discovered in 2011 and 2012, respectively

[@jamesrobinson4703]

With dark blue sky's and everything..... The view from this Planets surface would be absolutely stunning.

[@just_me2797]

I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that Pluto is precisely the temperature that it should be.

[@jimbob-robob]

Bit of Musk/Bezos terra forming could change what's "naturally meant to be"...

[@macrograms]

Glad to hear from you again. Love this channel! :)

[@rais1953]

All the fascinating and intricate detail we now have on Pluto/Charon should establish that "dwarf planet" should be regarded as a type of planet like terrestrial and gas giant planets.

[@ldubt4494]

Dwarf planet literally has the word "planet" in it. It is already regarded as a type of planet.

[@abenjamin13]

Always appreciate these videos thank you.

[@rzm8308]

You’re the reason why I’m in love in astronomy ❤

[@catalinacurio]

One of the best videos I’ve watched. Not only fascinating but narrated succinctly. Thank you.

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[@longtailgt]

Pluto just never fails to fascinate me! These are the kind of videos I can come back to and watch over again and always be entertained!

[@gryph01]

Pluto needs some love.

[@charlesgardner7258]

I agree I mean it is still a planet but it's just called a dwarf planet

[@kaltonian]

fantastic astrum, amazing pictures taken, the time taken to transmit or recieve data is long but certainly worth while, especially receiving the images.

[@andrewbrown6745]

Pluto isn’t even considered a planet and also it is so much more interesting than it’s other dwarf planets out there

[@beri232]

Ahhhh….. the soothing sound and voice of Astrum…. helps me sleep every time!

[@annakeye]

I would love to know more about Charon in relation to Pluto. Though called a 'moon' (satellite) of Pluto, it is more than half of Pluto's size which makes it less moon like and more like a dwarf planet.

[@spacecat8511]

I see no problem with pluto and charon being binary planets + orbiting captures asteroid satelites

[@overcomingobstaclescreates1695]

@@spacecat8511 Especially given that they orbit a barycenter outside of Pluto's surface.

[@PropagandaFacts]

This is gonna sound or rather read weird...but my biggest regret about life is that it goes by so fast. I would really enjoy watching the universe unfold without the sense of time. If I can experience loneliness in my death, then I would call that Hell.

[@HumanScourgeYT]

I really like the way you worded this. I too share the same feeling and always have. Of course in the afterlife I hope to encounter my loved ones… but boy do I hope my soul can traverse the cosmos. I’d give anything to see distant worlds and black holes and all of creation. “If it’s just us, sure is an awful waste of space” Carl Sagan

[@PropagandaFacts]

​@@HumanScourgeYT I'm a big fan of Robert Heinlein.

[@riverbender9898]

Your work is always of great interest. Thank you.

[@stephanieparker1250]

Those photos…. Takes my breath away!! 😮

[@therealKINDLE]

Fascinating. By the Gods I hope we get our damn act together here so we can eventually become space explorers. Just imagine walking on another planet.

[@styx5912]

Beautiful

[@nimaiiikun]

I still enjoy that early video you did on solar system distances and had to drive for a while to show how far Alpha Centauri was

[@clod8]

The heart shape on Pluto! And to think, Pluto had been demoted to a dwarf planet right before the images came out.

[@964cuplove]

First of all thanx a lot for making these fantastic videos, a pleasure to watch and great in teaching us the newest developments !! There is a documentary about new horizons, and the most touching moment is when the first image is downloaded and all the scientists stand around a wall mounted display and look at it like kids in a candy shop…. Fantastic display of all the best in human curiosity and scientific interest. I wish the world could leave senseless conflicts like the current on by Russia behind us and put that sort of money into science and the climate crisis solution etc. what a world we could have.

[@colmcillegardner2144]

Pray and work for Peace and the end of IGNORANCE👍

[@_Painted]

Could Pluto's higher than expected temperature be explained by internal friction due to tidal forces from its extremely large moon, Charon? Also could Pluto's mantle be made of something colder than liquid water, like a thin layer of liquid neon for example?

[@delskioffskinov]

Alex your soothing voice is one of those voices that make any subject sound interesting! I could listen to you all day. Keep up the great work you do and i'll keep on loving your narrations lol!

[@Ph33NIXx]

Pluto having a subsurface ocean is wild...

[@verdi2310]

*PLANET* Pluto is fascinating.

[@johnburn8031]

DWARF PLANET! 😁🙂

[@WilfredoWolganG]

What if the planets were living organisms and not just hunks of rocks floating in space? That would solve this conundrum

[@Journey_Awaits]

They don’t reproduce

[@WilfredoWolganG]

@@Journey_Awaits There are animals that reproduce asexually. There is also the Pyura Chilensis known as the living rock which is a good example of my hypothesis.

[@Naomi.Robertson]

Pluto will always be the 9th planet. You go Pluto!

[@skoitch]

Pluto has multiple moons, one of which is so large that they should be considered a binary pair. The warmth is due to tidal heating

[@its_me_nick]

Cool ✌️

[@user-vl4yi8jy9m]

After this video, Pluto has the right to claim re-consideration and recognition as one of the planets of the celestial group

[@tobystewart4724]

Does it? Do you care to remember the dozens of others that are the same size with equally unique qualities? Bet you don't. Bet you can't name more than a few, if any, even though dozens have been found.

[@spacecat8511]

@@tobystewart4724 Oh I remember. And the only reason why they weren’t considered alongside Pluto’s demotion is ‘cause they’re a bunch of cowards. More planets is more to love. Spherical and the center of its system and has an atmosphere? It’s a bloody planet. (Hell. Sometimes THE MOON gets brought up as “mmm maybe it is a very small planet and Earth’s a binary system vs planet and moon” so.)

[@tobystewart4724]

@Space Cat notice how you didn't name one? I did. You should learn what "coward" means since you used it incorrectly.

[@spacecat8511]

@@tobystewart4724 Because I didn’t need to? And neither did you, buddy. Also if you wanna troll about vernacular I’m shocked you didn’t go for the much lower hanging fruit over how I used “planet” vs “dwarf planet” as there is literally nothing wrong with how I used “coward.” But go off, troll.

[@howardbaxter2514]

I think that because of Charon and how the center of mass of Pluto and its moons is outside of the planet is one of the reasons why Pluto won’t be reinstated as a planet.

[@williewaset]

Pluto is still hot after being demoted...Keep it coming on Pluto!

[@robertadams5423]

Can you please explain what a cryovolcano is? I think it's an excellent opportunity to explain how they work compared to how Earth's volcanos work. Thank you

[@IndiBrony]

2:31 - 2kBps? Oh please, I'm old enough to remember when my home internet was almost that slow, and that didn't have to travel through most of the solar system! 😆

[@Ntmoffi]

The 9th planet is so cool just by itself.

[@johnburn8031]

It's the first of the dwarf planets.

[@KingdomOfSaulo]

@@johnburn8031 no, thats ceres.

[@johnburn8031]

@@KingdomOfSaulo I ought to have written one of the dwarf planets.

[@padraic773]

A new Pluto video! Hell yeah!

[@obtrunco]

I wonder what it'd be like for an astronaut to walk on Pluto's frozen nitrogen surface.

[@MrKotBonifacy]

Cold. Very cold. ;-)

[@Moodboard39]

Be dead

[@nerd26373]

NASA's discoveries are certainly fascinating. Planets out in the solar space sure can be unpredictable from time to time.

[@blacksage2375]

Nerds enshrining Tolkien across the sky puts a smile on my face.

[@peternystrom921]

Pluto, You are still my Planet.

[@racookster]

Watching this, it occurred to me that being demoted to "dwarf planet" status might be the best thing that ever happened to Pluto. Back when it was just the ninth planet, hardly anyone ever gave it any thought. Now, everybody loves it. Who doesn't love an underdog?

[@SteveDay-np9hr]

Excellent video as ever Alex. The imaging sensors for Lorri & Ralph. Where made & supplied, by the company & dept I worked for & materials Controller for this project. Due to low budget made available by NASA. New Horizons had to purchase, where possible, off the shelf items. Also, due to the low light level conditions on Pluto - equiv to dusk on earth. When New Horizons took the spectacular images looking back at Pluto, revealing it's blue atmosphere. The sun had to be directly behind Pluto, preventing damaging the light-sensitive devices.

[@eherrmann01]

Thank you for your contribution to such a successful mission.

[@charmerci]

Even 7 and a half years later, I still can't unsee the image of Disney's Pluto on Pluto!

[@luizotavio2116]

Pluto and Charon are by far my favorite celestial bodies

[@SteveDay-np9hr]

Karen's seem to get everywhere, even to the outer solar system 😆

[@JaykPuten]

Hey! It's still a planet to me! I don't care if I'm a heretic.... I still know it's not one to everyone else... But I still count it in the planets in the solar system (mostly because I was born in a time of...well... Impending nuclear doom, then political sexual scandals, then war... Wow...only a sexual scandal interrupted war in my life) Being a millennial is Soo weird sometimes

[@SteveDay-np9hr]

Although declassified as planet. Its still a planet to me too.

[@freefall9832]

It was the greatest scientific discovery of our time. Reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf should have gotten someone a Nobel prize.

[@JaykPuten]

@@freefall9832 that's your opinion, and opinions are not fact and can be wrong and can be wrong on both sides of the opinion, a Nobel prize for it's reclassification is a bit much... I mean I guess calling it a dwarf *PLANET* is a better compromise than "large piece of the kaiper belt that was once considered a full planet"

[@freefall9832]

@@JaykPuten sarcasm?

[@JaykPuten]

@@freefall9832 semi sarcasm... As I do appreciate his opinion and where it comes from

[@LinkTheFusky]

the devs didn't expect us to glitch through the invisible wall

[@reinaldoj.aponte9851]

I'm blown away by the endless possibilities that offer the times I Am lucky to live in. As a conscious being watching this images and listening to the brilliant minds who make it possible for me to expand my understanding of the universe, to glimpse and enjoy the view of this regions of the universe is to me a miracle. Just to think that I am mortal, nevertheless able to witness and to be aware of the immensity, beauty and nature of this part of reality, blows my mind. So I am thankful to all who makes it possible. 🚀

[@MrKotBonifacy]

Just a side note on "Sputnik Planitia" - "u" in sputnik is pronounced as in "put" [u], not as in "cut" [a]. "Sputnik" is a Russian word, "спутник" ("one who/ that is travelling along", from "c-"' prefix meaning "together / with" and the root "путь" - a path, route, road, way, and "-ник" suffix indicating a person on thing "doing the act"). Anyway, the letter "y" in Cyrillic represents [u] sound, hence "as explained above".

[@SmithsMobile]

Hearing the name Jeff Bozo and the word entrepreneur in the same sentence made me cringe.

[@thisguy555]

Question: suppose a new metal is somehow discovered that only exists on Pluto. Plutonium is taken. Ideas?

[@johnburn8031]

Hadesium?

[@thulyblu5486]

How about "Tonium." That's similar to hat we did with the rare earths. In a small Swedish village/mineshaft "Ytterby" we discovered Ytterbium. We found more so we called it Terbium. And then Erbium. Oh and Yttrium. Oh and then Holmium after Stockholm because the capital of Sweden is close by. Oh and Thulium after an old word for Scandinavia "Thule". Oh and Gadolinium after the Finnish Chemist Johan Gadolin who discovered the first rare earth element from rocks out of this mine. And yes, I read up on all this and this is where my screenname came from by the way. So Tonium? Lutonium? Tombaughium? Or something related to Tolkien again since all the regions and mountains are named after stuff like this. Mordorium would be cool.

[@trijizvy]

Thousand times my favorite video👍👍👍❤❤❤

[@cosmicphoto05]

Thanks for this fascinating field trip to Pluto!

[@Princess_Angela4496]

Nice video, But your sponsor sounds like a scam

[@PanzerBuyer]

Ponzi?

[@HoopTY303]

I would love to shine some light into the depression of Write Mons and see what’s going on in there!

[@hreader]

When I was very, very young I used to watch 'Space Patrol' on my parents' b/w TV, and this series sometimes featured a race called 'Plutonians'! (I think there were featured inhabitants on most of the other planets as well including Jupiter). At that time, the received wisdom was that Pluto was utterly frozen and dead so that 'Plutonians' were a complete fantasy. Having watched this however I begin to wonder... but perhaps they'd have to be entirely underwater life. Still, an advance on how Pluto was conceived by science rather than by kids' TV sci-fi back in 'Space Patrol' days (early 1960's)!

[@richardaitkenhead]

It always has been and always will be a planet to me, the pictures astound me everytime, it's breathtaking.

[@Jellyman1129]

It’s definitely a planet, don’t listen to the Irrelevant Astronomical Union.

[@mirchiamemeina1524]

I love this channel so much. It stokes the sense of wonder. Thank you.

[@XerxesGammon200]

Pluto will be reinstated as a planet one day and silence all the haters 👍

[@jedahn]

And Jupiter will be reinstated as a God!!!

[@Maidenless69420]

Keep dreaming

[@Ang3r87]

Pluto is my favorite planet!

[@XerxesGammon200]

@@Maidenless69420 😭😭😭

[@visionentertainment8006]

It still is a planet

[@hanspecans]

I love your videos but your sponsor is literally a scam. Do better.

[@soth1sol]

sponsors are whack af, agreed

[@holdinmuhl4959]

Astrum is the best astronomy channel on KZbin ever. Great thanks for it!

[@KingdomOfSaulo]

les goo more pluto episodes!

[@Singe0255]

Just an FYI - I usually watch ad integration on channels i follow as a matter of principle, but I closed this one down as soon as the dubious prospect of fractional shares in unique collectibles was introduced. It's a bad model, full of abuse and scandal, and I'm surprised it made it into this channel.

[@DVSx86]

cool! thanks for the great video, as usual!

[@melodylalhruaitluangikhawl7640]

Your channel is always interesting to watch and hear for us who's not even a science guy, but facinated by the wonders of the vast universe.Thank you. ❤

[@gasdive]

3 pluto videos dropped into my subs feed today!

[@MS-60663]

@ 11:46 Pluto looks like the most delicious scoop of vanilla, cookies and cream, chocolaty walnut ice-cream I've ever seen. And I hear it's kept frozen for endless freshness, too!