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Pluto Flyby—Illustrators Give Some Love To Our Beloved Dwarf Planet

by . July 15th, 2015

July 14, 2015 marks the day we finally have a complete family photo of our solar system’s planets.

(Yes, I said planets. Take that, Neil!)

The space probe New Horizons has completed its nine-year journey to fly by Pluto and its moons. We now have a clear photograph of how Pluto looks like.

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Pluto’s Photo from NASA

Thanks to social media, NASA was able to give live updates on the current status of the New Horizons probe, culminating into this true color image of the said planet.

As expected, illustrators from all around the internet are already on it and created several fan art shared across social media channels.

Check out some of the internet’s Pluto Flyby fan art here:

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Pluto’s Soldier

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Say cheese, Pluto!

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Pluto on Pluto

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That’s no planet

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Nyan Horizons Flyby

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Jurassic Pluto

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Pluto Gijinka

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Le Voyage dans la Pluto

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I’m Fangirling A Fucking Planet

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Love Letter From Pluto

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From Pluto, With Love

I won’t give up on you Pluto.

New Horizons will continue to gather data on Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, Styx, Hydra, and Kerberos as well as other astronomical objects in the Kuiper Belt.

Have any Pluto fan art for NASA’s #PlutoFlyby? Comment them here! 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kevin is a reader first, a writer second, and a gamer somewhere in between. When not rooting for Tyrion Lannister for the Iron Throne, he's probably writing some morbid short story. He enjoys some surreal art, clever advertising campaigns, and a warm cup of coffee while reading Murakami.